Social Commentaries
An Epigram
Translated by George Sigerson (1907) · From Bards of the Gael and Gall (1907)
Social Commentaries
He whose paddocks are showing fat herds of kine,
He whose harvests o'erflowing fill granaries fine,
Sees no kinsmen, when going, if poor they pine, —
All are out of his knowing who do not dine!
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Anonymous (Irish Gaelic, later). “An Epigram.” Translated by George Sigerson. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-irish-gaelic/122/.
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Anonymous (Irish Gaelic, later). “An Epigram.” Translated by George Sigerson. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-irish-gaelic/122/.
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