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Ní mhair séan do ghnáth

Author: unknown

File Description

Electronic edition compiled by Beatrix Färber

Funded by University College Cork, School of History

1. First draft.

Extent of text: 700 words

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Distributed by CELT online at University College, Cork, Ireland.
Text ID Number: G402333

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Available with prior consent of the CELT programme for purposes of academic research and teaching only. The text is reproduced with the kind permission of the estate of Thomas F. O'Rahilly.

Sources

Manuscript source
1. Castlerea (Co. Roscommon), Clonalis House, Book of the O'Conor Don.

Edition
1. Thomas F. O'Rahilly, Dánta Grádha: an anthology of Irish love poetry (A.D.1350-1750), second edition (Cork 1926).

The edition used in the digital edition
1. Thomas F. O'Rahilly, Ní mhair séan do ghnáth in Dánta Grádha, Ed. Thomas F. O'Rahilly. , Cork, Cork University Press (1926) page 105–106

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Profile Description

Created: By an unknown Irish bardic poet. No date range has been given for this poem. Date range: 1200–1600.

Use of language

Language: [GA] The text is in Classical Modern Irish.

Revision History

• (2016-07-04)

  Beatrix Färber (ed.)

• SGML and HTML versions created.
• (2016-06-27)

  Beatrix Färber (ed.)

• Header created; file proofed (1) and encoded, queries resolved using information from the Bardic Poetry Database at the DIAS website; file parsed and validated.
• (1998)

  Students at the CELT project (ed.)

• Text captured by scanning.

Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition: G402333

Ní mhair séan do ghnáth: Author: unknown

p.105

1. 1] Ní mhair séan do ghnáth, —
   2] do dhearbh a lán é,
   3] amhlaidh sin nách cóir
   4] teann as glóir dá méid.
2. 5] Gnáth gach deasgadh searbh;
   6] tarla a dhearbh liom,
   7] gach flaitheas dá mhéid
   8] go dtéid bun-as-cionn.
3. 9] Mór mo ghuais i-niu,
   10] fada ón riocht i-né;
   11] a shaoghail na lúb
   12] is tusa tú féin.
4. 13] Dá bhféachthaoi fó seach
   14] cách ó bheag go mór,
   15] ní fhuil bocht fón ghréin
   16] do dhlighfeadh déirc róm.
5. 17] Dá ndeachainn dá mheas,
   18] beag nách leamh mar tám;
   19] go deó mairfe sinn
   20] im dhuine thinn shlán.
6. 21] An bhean so rom-chráidh,
   22] ní mé a-mháin do mheall;
   23] cóir a iomchar lé,
   24] do bhí sé 'nar gceann.

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p.106

7. 25] A bhfuil teas is tuaidh,
   26] ní críonna uaim súd,
   27] mar táid tríthi ag searg,
   28] nách tearna dealg dhún.
8. 29] Ní fhuil feidhm bheith ria,
   30] olc an chiall a cor;
   31] ionann mharbhas sí
   32] an rí is an bocht.
9. 33] Im riocht féin a-rís
   34] ní bhiam go dtí an bráth;
   35] beag nách leamh mo sgéal;
   36] ní mhair séan do ghnáth!