Dedicatory Poem: To George Sigerson, Poet And Scholar Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDB EFEEE GHEFI JIEKH LELE| Two men of art they say were with the sons | A |
| Of Mil eacute a poet and a harp player | B |
| When Mil eacute having taken Ireland left | C |
| The land to his sons' rule the poet was | D |
| Cir and fair Cendfind was the harp player | B |
| - | |
| The sons of Mil eacute for the kingship fought | E |
| Blithely with merry sounds the old poem says | F |
| Eber and Eremon the sons of Mil eacute | E |
| And when division of the land was made | E |
| They drew a lot for the two men of art | E |
| - | |
| With Eber who had won the Northern half | G |
| The Harper Cendfind went and with Eremon | H |
| The Northerner Cir the poet stayed | E |
| And so the old Book of the Conquests says | F |
| The South has music and the North has lore | I |
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| To you who are both of the North and South | J |
| To you who have the music and the lore | I |
| To you in whom Cir and Cendfind are met | E |
| To you I bring the tale of poetry | K |
| Left by the sons of Eber and of Eremon | H |
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| A leabhr aacute in gabh amach f aacute 'n saoghal | L |
| Is do gach n aon d aacute mbuaileann leat | E |
| Aithris cruinn go maireann Gaedhil | L |
| T'r eacute is cleasa claon nan Gall ar fad | E |
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