Nature
The Blackbird's Song
Translated by George Sigerson (1907) · From Bards of the Gael and Gall (1907)
Nature
Great woods gird me now around,
With sweet sound merle sings to me:
My much-lined pages over
Sings its lover minstrelsie.
Soft it sings its measured song,
Hid among the tree-tops green:
May God on high thus love me,
Thus approve me, all unseen.
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Anonymous (Old Irish). “The Blackbird's Song.” Translated by George Sigerson. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-old-irish/205/.
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Anonymous (Old Irish). “The Blackbird's Song.” Translated by George Sigerson. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-old-irish/205/.
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