Death & Dying
Quatrains: On a Dead Scholar
Translated by Alfred Perceval Graves (1917) · From A Celtic Psaltery (1917)
Death & Dying
Dead is Lon
Of Kilgarrow,
O great sorrow!
Dead and gone.
Dire the dolour,
Erin, here and past thy border,
Dire the dolour and disorder,
To the schools and to the scholar,
Since our Lon
Is dead and gone.
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Codex Note
Early Irish quatrain.
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MLA
Anonymous (Old Irish). “Quatrains: On a Dead Scholar.” Translated by Alfred Perceval Graves. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-old-irish/129/.
Chicago
Anonymous (Old Irish). “Quatrains: On a Dead Scholar.” Translated by Alfred Perceval Graves. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-old-irish/129/.
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