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Clasics in Ñspel: “Lines Written on a Seat on the Grand Canal, Dublin,” by Patrick Kavanagh

Statue of Patrick Kavanagh by the Grand Canal in Dublin.

Patric Caṿna

Lînz Ritn on a Sīt on ɖ Grand Cnal, Dublin
‘Irectd t ɖ Meṃri v Msz Drṃt OBrayn’

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Ǒ cmeṃret m ẃr ɖr z wōtr,
Cnalwōtr, prefṛbli, so stili
Grīni at ɖ hart v sumr. Bruɖr
Cmeṃret m ɖus bytifli
Ẃr bî a loc nîaġṛsli rorz
Ɖ fōlz fr ɖoz hu sit in ɖ tṛmnḍs sîḷns
V mid-Jlî. Nwn wl spīc in prǒz
Hu fîndz hiz we t ɖz Parnasịn îḷndz.
A swon gz bî hed lo wɖ mni apoḷjiz,
Fntastic lît lcs ʈru ɖ îz v brijz –
N lc! a barj cmz brññ fṛm Aʈî
N uɖr far-fluñ tǎnz miʈoḷjiz.
Ǒ cmeṃret m wɖ no hiro-c’rejs
Tūm – jst a cnalbanc sīt fr ɖ pasrbî.

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Clasics in Ñspel: EPIC, by Patrick Kavanagh

Statue of Patrick Kavanagh by the Grand Canal in Dublin.

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I hv livd in importnt plesz, tîmz
Ẃn gret ivnts wr dsîdd; hu ǒnd
Ɖt haf a rȕd v roc, a no-man’z land
Srǎndd bî ǎr pićforc-armd clemz.
I hŕd ɖ Dufiz śǎtñ ‘Dám yr soul!’
N old MCeb stript t ɖ weist, sìn
Step ɖ plot dfayñ blu cast-stīl –
‘Hir z ɖ marć alñ ɖz ayn stonz’
Ɖt wz ɖ yir v ɖ Ḿnic boɖr. Ẃć
Wz mor importnt? I inclînd
T lūz mî fe ʈ in Baliruś n Gortin
Tl Homr’z gost cem ẃisṗrñ

t mî mînd.

H sd: I md ɖ Iliad fṛm sć
A locl rǎ.

Godz mc ɖer ǒn importns.

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Clasics in Ñspel: KERR’S ASS, by Patrick Kavanagh

Statue of Patrick Kavanagh by the Grand Canal in Dublin.

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CR’Z AS

W boroud ɖ loun v Cr’z big as
T g t Dundōc wɖ butr,
Bròt him hom ɖ īvnñ bfr ɖ marcit
N xîl ɖt nît in Mucr.

W hìld p ɖ cart bfr ɖ dor,
W tc ɖ harnis insd —
Ɖ strw-stuft stradl, ɖ brocn brićñ
Wɖ bits v bl-wîr taid;

Ɖ wncrz ɖt hd no ćocband,
Ɖ colr n ɖ reinz…
In Īlñ Brōdwe, Lundn Tǎn
I nem ɖer sevṛl nemz

Untl a wrld cmz t lîf —
Mornñ, ɖ sîḷnt bog,
N ɖ God v imaɉneśn wecñ
In a Mucr fog.

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Clasics in Ñspel: ON RAGLAN ROAD, by Patrick Kavanagh

Statue of Patrick Kavanagh by the Grand Canal in Dublin.

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ON RAGḶN ROD

On Ragḷn Rod on an ōtm de I met hr frst n ń
Ɖt hr darc her wd wīv a sner ɖt I mt wn de ru;
I sw ɖ denjr, yt I wōct alñ ɖ inćantd we,
N I sd, let grīf b a fōḷn līf at ɖ dōnñ v ɖ de.

On Graftn Strīt in Nvmbr w tript lîtli alñ ɖ lej
V ɖ dīp r’vīn ẃr cn b sìn ɖ wrʈ v paśn’z plej,
Ɖ Qīn v Harts stl mcñ tarts n I nt mcñ he –
O I luvd tù mć n bî sć n sć z hapinis ʈroun awe.

I gev hr gifts v ɖ mînd I gev hr ɖ sīcrit sîn ɖt’s noun
T ɖ artists hu hv noun ɖ tru godz v sǎnd n ston
N wrd n tint. I did nt stint fr I gev hr powmz t se.
Wɖ hr ǒn nem ɖr n hr ǒn darc her lîc clǎdz ovr fīldz v Me

On a qayt strīt ẃr old gosts mīt I si hr wōcñ nǎ
Awe fṛm m so huridli mî rīzn mst alǎ
Ɖt I hd wùd nt az I śd a crīćr md v cle –
Ẃn ɖ enjl wuz ɖ cle h’d lūz hiz wñz at ɖ dōn v de.

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