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Posted By: GUEST
25-Jun-22 - 12:46 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: a Iosa, a Iosa (Irish Gaelic hymn)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: a Iosa, a Iosa (Irish Gaelic hymn)
No doubt you are right Felipa, but this is one that I turned up on my computer, there are another thirteen verses which makes it seem more likely as a poem than a song.
A Íosa, an éisdir mo dhán?
[McKenna, L.: Dánta do chum Aonghus Fionn Ó Dálaigh, Dublin 1919, poem 20]
Do Chríosd
1 A Íosa an éisdir mo dhán fíoch ar do bhréithir ná bíodh ag so an tí fa bhfuile fuar a uan Mhuire a Rí na ríogh.
2 Maith thuillim t’fheirg is t’fhíoch fan gceird do [chuireas] i ngnáth is foghar leathtruim gan luach moladh luath chleachtaim do chách.