Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900.
T. W. Rolleston. b. 1857849. The Dead at Clonmacnois FROM THE IRISH OF ANGUS O’GILLAN
IN a quiet water’d land, a land of roses, | |
Stands Saint Kieran’s city fair; | |
And the warriors of Erin in their famous generations | |
Slumber there. | |
There beneath the dewy hillside sleep the noblest | 5 |
Of the clan of Conn, | |
Each below his stone with name in branching Ogham | |
And the sacred knot thereon. | |
There they laid to rest the seven Kings of Tara, | |
There the sons of Cairbrè sleep— | 10 |
Battle-banners of the Gael that in Kieran’s plain of crosses | |
Now their final hosting keep. | |
And in Clonmacnois they laid the men of Teffia, | |
And right many a lord of Breagh; | |
Deep the sod above Clan Creidè and Clan Conaill, | 15 |
Kind in hall and fierce in fray. | |
Many and many a son of Conn the Hundred-Fighter | |
In the red earth lies at rest; | |
Many a blue eye of Clan Colman the turf covers, | |
Many a swan-white breast. | 20 |