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heart of the wood

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  • 21-05-2015 7:39am
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    Crann na Beatha
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    gaiscioch
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    JT26 wrote: »
    My hope and my love,
    we will go for a while into the wood,
    scattering the dew,
    where we will see the trout,
    we will see the blackbird on its nest;
    the deer and the buck calling,
    the little bird that is sweetest singing on the branches;
    the cuckoo on the top of the fresh green;
    and death will never come near us for ever in the sweet wood.

    This poem was originally in Irish any idea where I can fund the original Irish poem?

    Is it verse 4 of Éamann an Chnoic? It has a similarity to this.


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    gaiscioch
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    gaiscioch wrote: »
    Is it verse 4 of Éamann an Chnoic? It has a similarity to this.

    Actually, I just checked my copy of Seán Ó Tuama's An Duanaire: Poems of the Dispossessed (Dolmen Press, 1994) and there on page 280 is a poem titled 'Coillte Glasa an Triúcha.' That's your original. Will post it later.


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    gaiscioch
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    Coillte Glasa an Triúcha1

    Coillte Glasa an Triúcha2

    Coillte Glasa an Triúcha3 (clearer image of the relevant last verse)

    You should be able to zoom in on all those images.


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