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Blackbird Poems
Int én bec
ro léc feit
do rinn guip
glanbuidi
fo-ceird faíd
ós Loch Laíg,
lon do chraíb
charnbuidi
9th Century Irish
ro léc feit
do rinn guip
glanbuidi
fo-ceird faíd
ós Loch Laíg,
lon do chraíb
charnbuidi
9th Century Irish
The small bird
chirp-chirruped:
yellow neb,
a note-spurt.
Blackbird over
Lagan water.
Clumps of yellow
whin-burst!
Seamus Heaney
chirp-chirruped:
yellow neb,
a note-spurt.
Blackbird over
Lagan water.
Clumps of yellow
whin-burst!
Seamus Heaney
the little bird
that whistled shrill
from the nib of
its yellow bill:
a note let go
o’er Belfast Lough -
a blackbird from
a yellow whin
Ciaran Carson