Ar bajenn-mañ n’he deus ket ezhomm da vezañ adlennet.
ADIEU TO BRITANNY.
Bjr Sainsel WEM/QVB&Bi.
I.
€ Rugged land of the granité and oak , » I départ with a sigh from thy shore y
Ând with kinsman's affection a blessing invoke On the maids and the men of Ârvôr.
IL
For fhe Irish and Breton are kin y
Though the lights of Antiquity pale In the point of the dawn where the partings begin
Of the Bolg and the Kymro and Gael ;
III.
But though dim in the distance of time , Be the low-buming beacons of famé ,
Holy Nature attests us in writing subUme On heart and on visage , the same ; —
IV.
In the dark-eye-lash'd eye of blue-gray — In the open look , modest and kind —
In the face's fine oval reflecting the play Of the sensitive , generous mind. —
