Note 7 — Chapter XXXVII
Reading edition
Printed by O'Flanagan in the "Transactions of the Gaelic Society," 1808, and translated by Dr. Sigerson in his "Bards of the Gael and Gall." I cannot refrain from the pleasure of quoting the following verses from his beautiful translation:—
"The tuneful tumult of that bird, The belling deer on ferny steep: This welcome in the dawn he heard, These soothed at eve his sleep.
Dear to him the wind-loved heath, The whirr of wings, the rustling brake; Dear the murmuring glens beneath, And sob of Droma's lake.
The cry of hounds at early morn, The pattering deer, the pebbly creek, The cuckoo's call, the sounding horn, The swooping eagle's shriek."