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O, Son of my God, what a pride, what a pleasure

To plough the blue sea!

The waves of the fountain of deluge to measure

Dear Eiré to thee.

We are rounding Moy-n-Olurg, we sweep by its head, and

We plunge through Loch Foyle,

Whose swans could enchant with their music the dead, and

Make pleasure of toil.

The host of the gulls come with joyous commotion

And screaming and sport,

I welcome my own “Dewy-Red” from the ocean

Arriving in port.[7]

O Eiré, were wealth my desire, what a wealth were

To gain far from thee,

In the land of the stranger, but there even health were

A sickness to me!

Alas for the voyage O high King of Heaven

Enjoined upon me,

For that I on the red plain of bloody Cooldrevin

Was present to see.

How happy the son is of Dima; no sorrow

For him is designed,

He is having, this hour, round his own hill in Durrow

The wish of his mind.

The sounds of the winds in the elms, like the strings of

A harp being played,

The note of the blackbird that claps with the wings of

Delight in the glade.

With him in Ros-Grencha the cattle are lowing

At earliest dawn,

On the brink of the summer the pigeons are cooing

And doves in the lawn.

Three things am I leaving behind me, the very

Most dear that I know,

Tir-Leedach I’m leaving, and Durrow and Derry,

Alas, I must go!

Yet my visit and feasting with Comgall have eased me

At Cainneach’s right hand,

And all but thy government, Eiré, has pleased me,

Thou waterfall land.