  Traditional. DeirÍn dÉ, DeirÍn dÉ! The brown bittern speaks in the bog; DeirÍn dÉ, DeirÍn dÉ! The night-jar is abroad on the heath. DeirÍn dÉ, DeirÍn dÉ! Kine will go west at dawn of day; DeirÍn dÉ, DeirÍn dÉ! And my child will go to the pasture to mind them. DeirÍn dÉ, DeirÍn dÉ! Moon will rise and sun will set; DeirÍn dÉ, DeirÍn dÉ! Kine will come east at end of day. DeirÍn dÉ, DeirÍn dÉ! I will let my child go gathering blackberries, DeirÍn dÉ, DeirÍn dÉ! If he sleep softly till the ring of day! P. H. Pearse. |
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