Our children, all of them flown from the nest, were with us tonight. I thought of this poem, well-known, from Séamus Ó Néill:

Bhí subh milis
Ar bhaschrann an dorais
Ach mhúch mé an corraí
Ionam d’éirigh,
Mar smaoinigh mé ar an lá
A bheas an bhaschrann glan,
Agus an láimh bheag
Ar iarraidh.

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