| Padraic Colum (1881–1972). Anthology of Irish Verse. 1922. |
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| Dedicatory Poem |
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| To George Sigerson, Poet and Scholar |
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| Two men of art, they say, were with the sons | |
| Of Milé,—a poet and a harp player, | |
| When Milé, having taken Ireland, left | |
| The land to his sons’ rule; the poet was | |
| Cir, and fair Cendfind was the harp player. | 5 |
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| The sons of Milé for the kingship fought— | |
| (Blithely, with merry sounds, the old poem says) | |
| Eber and Eremon, the sons of Milé | |
| And when division of the land was made | |
| They drew a lot for the two men of art. | 10 |
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| With Eber who had won the Northern half | |
| The Harper Cendfind went, and with Eremon | |
| The Northerner, Cir the poet stayed; | |
| And so, the old Book of the Conquests says, | |
| The South has music and the North has lore. | 15 |
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| To you who are both of the North and South, | |
| To you who have the music and the lore, | |
| To you in whom Cir and Cendfind are met, | |
| To you I bring the tale of poetry | |
| Left by the sons of Eber and of Eremon. | 20 |
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| A leabhráin, gabh amach fá’n saoghal, | |
| Is do gach n-aon dá mbuaileann leat | |
| Aithris cruinn go maireann Gaedhil, | |
| T’réis cleasa claon nan Gall ar fad. | |
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