A Mountaineer

ERE Beowulf's song

Was heard from the ships,

Ere Roland had set

The horn to his lips:

In Ogham strokes

A name was writ:

That name his name

Lives in yet.

The strokes on the edge

Of the stone might count

The acres he has

On this bare mount;

But he remembers

The pillar-stone,

And knows that he is

Of the seed of Eoin.