The Sabbathday River [antikvár]

.riiie FIFSIE Bh JI place my hope on the water in this little boatof the language, the way a body might put an infantin a basket of intertwined iris leaves,its underside proofed with bitumen and pitch,then set the whole thing down amidst the sedgeand bulrushes by the edge of a riveronly to have it borne hither and thither, not knowing where it might end up; in the lap, perhaps, of some Pharaoh's daughter.Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill, "The Language Issue" (translated from the Irish by Paul Muldoon)