Out
West Looks the Lady
by Tomás Ó Cárthaigh
Translated from Irish
Gaelic by Tomás Ó Cárthaigh
[Deutsch] [Gàidhlig] [Plattdüütsch]
he looks out across
the sea.
There is no more land to the eye
But water, out, out to the
sky,
And on the strand she’s walking.
She
seeks out a boat on the water
For
when it comes home again.
There is a sad face on the girl.
She is but 19 years.
There are others
by the sea,
Children full of delight.
When they look at the waterline
They are not able to see her.
For she is dead,
beneath the water.
She jumped in at the morning sun.
She lost her love on the boat.
Now she’s sleeping a few years.
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