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By Matthew Price May 7, 2020

A Ghuí ar a Croí

Art by Holly Anderson.

Dá mbeadh brait gréasacha na neimhe
Maisithe le solas airgid óir,
Iad gorma, dorcha, agus séimhe,
‘S mise amháin ina sealbhóir,
Chuirfinn fútsa na brait gan agó;
Ach, níl a’am ach brionglóidí bochta;
Chuir mé mo bhrionglóidí fútsa fadó:
Céimnigh orthu go ciúin, cosnochta.∎

 

Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven

Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

 

Translation by Matthew Price. Art by Holly Anderson.

Original text by W.B.Yeats.

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