Scots Poems From Forhooied Comments

Forhooeied: (Raglan Road)
The poem Raglan Road by Patrick Kavanagh was set to the music of the traditional song "The Dawning of the Day" (Fáinne Geal an Lae) . An Irish-language song with this name (Fáinne Geal an Lae)was published by Edward Walsh (1805-1850)in 1847 in Irish Popular Songs, and later translated into English as The Dawning of the Day, published by Patrick Weston Joyce in 1873.

Fin an Irish bard gies up his hairt
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