A Manx dialect poem by Cushag: Beulah
One of the many beautiful poems by the Manx writer, Cushag (Josephine Kermode), 'Beulah'.
BEULAH
THE sun is rose an’ fell on me
This nearly ninety years,
While I have seen my share of joy
An’ shed a sight of tears.
An’ now I’m in my eighty-nine
An’ goin’ down the hill,
I’m thinkin’ tears have passed me by
But joys are with me still.
I’m takin’ still my daily walk
Along the leafy lane,
An’ by the low white pillar sit
To look on Ballawhane.
The little childher on me smile,
The lovely flowers I see,
An’ through the little everin’
The t’rushes sing to me.
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This poem was published in Cushag's 1911 collection of poems, 'Ellan Vannin'. This book, along with all her other published work, is available on the Manx Literature website:
manxliterature.com/browse-by-author/cushag/
Culture Vannin exists to promote and support all aspects of culture in the Isle of Man.
A Manx dialect poem by Cushag: Beulah
One of the many beautiful poems by the Manx writer, Cushag (Josephine Kermode), 'Beulah'.
BEULAH
THE sun is rose an’ fell on me
This nearly ninety years,
While I have seen my share of joy
An’ shed a sight of tears.
An’ now I’m in my eighty-nine
An’ goin’ down the hill,
I’m thinkin’ tears have passed me by
But joys are with me still.
I’m takin’ still my daily walk
Along the leafy lane,
An’ by the low white pillar sit
To look on Ballawhane.
The little childher on me smile,
The lovely flowers I see,
An’ through the little everin’
The t’rushes sing to me.
manxliterature.com/sort-by-genre/genre/ellan-vannin/#beulah
This poem was published in Cushag's 1911 collection of poems, 'Ellan Vannin'. This book, along with all her other published work, is available on the Manx Literature website:
manxliterature.com/browse-by-author/cushag/
Culture Vannin exists to promote and support all aspects of culture in the Isle of Man.