EGAN O'RAHILLY

Here in a distant place I hold my tongue;

I am O'Rahilly:

When I was young,

Who now am young no more,

I did not eat things picked up from the shore.

The periwinkle, and the tough dogfish

At even-time have got into my dish!

The great, where are they now! the great had said —

This is not seemly, bring to him instead

That which serves his and serves our dignity —

And that was done.

I am O'Rahilly:

Here in a distant place I hold my tongue,

Who once said all his say, when he was young!