| Padraic Colum (1881–1972). Anthology of Irish Verse. 1922. |
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| 81. Muckish Mountain (The Pig’s Back) |
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| By Shane Leslie |
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| LIKE a sleeping swine upon the skyline, | |
| Muckish, thou art shadowed out, | |
| Grubbing up the rubble of the ages | |
| With your broken, granite snout. | |
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| Muckish, greatest pig in Ulster’s oakwoods, | 5 |
| Littered out of rock and fire, | |
| Deep you thrust your mottled flanks for cooling | |
| Underneath the peaty mire. | |
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| Long before the Gael was young in Ireland, | |
| You were ribbed and old and grey, | 10 |
| Muckish, you have long outstayed his staying, | |
| You have seen him swept away. | |
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| Muckish, you will not forget the people | |
| Of the laughing speech and eye, | |
| They who gave you name of Pig-back-mountain | 15 |
| And the Heavens for a sty! | |
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