The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #159991   Message #3792700
Posted By: GUEST,keberoxu
28-May-16 - 09:32 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Caislean Ui Neill
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Caislean Ui Neill
corresponds to: A chumainn dhil a's annsacht a d-tús....

Oh, affection and oh, darling, in the beginning of the summer
would you move with me yourself
Out under [Hyde adds: (among)] the valleys where we might be
at the going-under of the sun
Cows, sheep, or calves, I would not ask them
for fortune with thee,
But my hand beneath your white form,
And leave to converse until twelve would strike.

translator: Douglas Hyde
page 23, "Love Songs of Connacht"