A Breffne Caoine (verse)
Colum, Padraic
A Breffne Caoine Not as a woman of the English weeping over a lord of the English Do I weep- A cry that scarcely stirs the heart! I lament as it is in my blood to lament: Castle and stronghold...
...A Breffne Caoine Not as a woman of the English weeping over a lord of the English Do I weepA cry that scarcely stirs the heart...
...I lament as it is in my blood to lament: Castle and stronghold are broken And the sovereign of the land beside the lake lies dead- Mahon O'Reilly- In his day the English were broken...
...Padraic Colum...
...I weep beside Lough Sheelin and the day is long and grey...
Vol. 11 • November 1929 • No. 2
