Tag: Mise Éire; Sine mé ná an Chailleach Bhéarra
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“The lament of the Old Woman of Beare”—Contrasting the passage of life
Basil BrookeJohannesburg, South Africa It is well for an island of the great sea: flood comes to it after its ebb; as for me, I expectno flood after ebb to come to me. Today there is scarcelya dwelling-place I could recognize;what was in floodis all ebbing. From “The Lament of the Old Woman of Beare”,c.…