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: : : : Does anyone know the name of the poem that was : : : : read at the party in the movie adaptation : : : : (John Huston)of the dead? : : : I think it was "Broken Vows" : : Yes, it was translated by Lady Gregory in the 14th Century, or something like that. It was called broken Vows" : : I have the words written down somewhere. I just have to locate the notebook : This is a fragment of the Gaelic love-song "Dnall Og", translated into English by Yeats's patron, Lady Gregory. : : O Donall og, if you go across the sea, : bring myself with you and do not forget it; : and you will have a sweetheart for fair days and market days, : and the daughter of the King of Greece beside you at night. : It is late last night the dog was speaking of you; : the snipe was speaking of you in her deep marsh. : It is you are the lonely bird through the woods; : and that you may be without a mate until you find me. : You promised me, and you said a lie to me, : that you would be before me where the sheep are flocked; : I gave a whistle and three hundred cries to you, : and I found nothing there but a bleating lamb. : You promised me a thing that was hard for you, : a ship of gold under a silver mast; : twelve towns with a market in all of them, : and a fine white court by the side of the sea. : You promised me a thing that is not possible, : that you would give me gloves of the skin of a fish; : that you would give me shoes of the skin of a bird, : and a suit of the dearest silk in Ireland. : O donall og, : it is I would be better to you : than a high proud, spendthrift lady: : I would milk the cow; I would bring help to you; : and if you were hard pressed, : I would strike a blo_w** for you. : ** (underscores added to get past the CDA Censor on this site) : O, ochone, : and it's not with hunger or with wanting food, : or drink, or sleep, that I am growing thin, : and my life is shortened; : but it is the love of a young man has withered me away. : It is early in the morning that I saw him coming, : going along the road on the back of a horse; : he did not come to me; : he made nothing of me; : and it is on my way home that I cried my fill. : When I go by myself to the Well of Loneliness, : I sit down and I go through my trouble; : when I see the world and do not see my boy, : he that has amber shade in his hair. : It was On that Sunday I gave my love to you; : the Sunday that is last before Easter Sunday. : And myself on my knees reading the Pas_sion**; : and my two eyes giving my love to you for ever. : **(underscores added to get past the CDA Censor on this site) : O, aya! : My mother, give myself to him; : and give him all that you have in the world; : get out yourself to ask for alms, : and do not come back and forward looking for me. : My mother said to me not to be talking with you to-day, : or tomorrow, or on the Sunday; : it was a bad time she took for telling me that; : it was shutting the door after the house was robbed. : My heart is as black as the blackness of the sloe, : or the black coal that is on the smith's forge; : or as the sole of a shoe left in white halls; : it was you put that darkness into my life. : You have taken the east from me; : you have taken the west from me; : you have taken what is before me and what is behind me; : you have taken the moon, : you have taken the sun from me; : and my fear is great : that you have taken God from me!

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