He travels after a winter sun,
Urging the cattle along a coid red road,
Calling to them, a voice they know,
He drives his beasts above Cabra[3].
The voice tells them home is warm.
They moo and make brute music with their hoofs.
He drives them with a flowering branch before him,
Smoke pluming their foreheads.
Boor, bond of the herd,
Tonight stretch full by the fire!
I bleed by the black stream
For my torn bough[4]!
[Dublín, 1904]