Bruno Coulais - Aisling's Song (The Secret of Kells) текст песни

You must? go? where I can not,
Pangur Ban Pangur Ban,
Nil sa saol seo ach ceo,
Is ni bheimid beo,
ach seal beag gearr.
Pangur Ban Pangur Ban,
Nil sa saol seo ach ceo,
Is ni bheimid beo,
ach seal beag gearr

No bother,
Nil sa saol seo, ach ceo.
(There is nothing in life but mist,)
Is ni beimid beo, ach seal beag gear,
( We wont be alive but for a short time)
NB. Pangur Ban is a famous Iriash poem about a monk and his white cat
Aisling is a word for a dream or a vision, in aisling poems, a woman would appear to the poet as a personification of Ireland and speak of the country's troubles
St Brendan the Navigator in Irish legend was a great voyager