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A Blackbird at Belfast Lough

Author: John Erskine

Date: 2012

Source: Ullans: The Magazine for Ulster-Scots, Nummer 12 Wunter 2011/12

John Erskine

An Ulster-Scots paraphrase from the eighth-century Irish

Tha Merle bi Lagan’s Loch

Tha bricht wee burd

haes wheeple’t furth:

an airra frae

a yella neb;

blythe, skails its sang

owre Lagan’s Loch;

a merle, atap

a yella whun.

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