WE'LL GO WEST
.
We'll go west shoulder to shoulder leaning over the rails
on a ferry-boat in company of sea-gulls
leaving off our sadness and sorrow in her wake
farewell Brittany, watch the skyline
.
We'll land on the quays, the sea-weeds
in the river-mouth of Dingle Bay, of Killarney
streaming with water, the trailers, crates full of fish
the sailing-boats sailing ashore in the choppy sea
.
We'll go funny bird whistling my love
in a fiddle tune the adventures of seamen
who play for freedom in the cubicles of pubs
« Have a safe journey! » will say handling our glasses
.
We'll read the tatooes on the dockers' skin
in the interlaced jewlery, the pretty girls' heart
under the freckles, Deirdre's sorrows
and in the clenched fist a torn country
.
In the memory of heavy helmets, the choppers
flying over Falls Roads and the tags on the walls
we'll utter Bobby Sand's name where blood has shed
when the violent harp played a hue and cry
.
We'll be seen at the far end of Connemara
in the drenched green bogs will the ponys
leap forward reeling over pastures and your lips
will taste beer and honey as I like it
.
Leaving from Doolin Peer on the Queen of Aran
tossed by the swell shouder to shoulder
Passengers for Inish Mean where Synge had come
We'll walk rovers on the sandy lanes
.
And the small walls will shelter fishing gear
and the poem that he wrote on the curragh
and the reddened turf in the blackened fire-places
when gaelic was still spoken in the cottages
.
We'll go west shoulder to shoulder over the rails
on a ferry-boat in company of sea-gulls
drowning our grief and sorrow in her wake
sailing hand in hand towards the Aran islands
.
With the taste of beer and honey when loving
a beam of sun lightning in the gloom
We'll walk rovers over the sandy lanes
Farewell my country, watch the skyline !
.
Patrick Arduen, translated by Jakez-Erwan Mouton
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