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Korriganed

Korriganed

ELVES

 

A people of elves

A degenerate people

A genocidal people

Drowned in red wine

Drowned in French pom-pom

And in the political slogans

A people resembling Elves

Playfully amusing themselves

In the abandoned heath

Dancing among the megaliths

To the sound of the toads

To the mysterious music

Of the wind and the sea

The lament of the streams

The rustling of the woods

 

And the enchantment of the Harp

And the bagpipe of the night-Festivals

Elves crouch in their hole

As soon as the Masters roar

As soon as the Frenchman's roosters crow

A defeated people, drowned

Like the City of Ys in the ocean 11

 

Some complain in the dark night

About their lost Liberties

While dancing like Elves

On the dried ground of the warren

And kneel every morning

Before the French-God.

Do back-breaking work,

During the day, during the week,

For the Country that sucks them...

 

Ah! People disintegrated

Turned to elves!

What miracle will be needed

To awaken you?

 

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11 A legendary city submerged in the sea due to the wickedness of its people.

Read this poem in breton
Translated by Lenora Timm
 

"""Ya, ober 'ran gwerzennoł. Met ne blij tamm ket din bezań anvet barzh!"""
 
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