2015-04-01

Bean

A Woman

Time on her face has writ
A hundred years,
And all the page of it
Blurred with his tears;

Yet in his holiest crypt
Treasuring the scroll,
Keeps the sweet manuscript
Fair as her soul.
Thomas MacDonagh (1878 -1916)



Bean

Tá céad bliain ag an Am
Scríofa ar a cló,
Is an leathanach ann
Faoi smál na ndeor.

San uaimh naofa ámh
Tá an scrolla aige slán,
Is an lámhscríbhinn dhílis
Mar a hanam án.