Death & Dying
On a Dead Scholar
Translated by Kuno Meyer (1911) · From Selections from Ancient Irish Poetry (1911): Quatrains
Death & Dying
Dead is Lon
Of Kilgarrow, O great hurt!
To Ireland and beyond her border
It is ruin of study and of schools.
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MLA
Anonymous (Old Irish). “On a Dead Scholar.” Translated by Kuno Meyer. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-old-irish/40/.
Chicago
Anonymous (Old Irish). “On a Dead Scholar.” Translated by Kuno Meyer. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-old-irish/40/.
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