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Ag Criost An Siol, Ag Criost and fomhar |
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With Christ of the seed, with Christ of the harvest |
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I n-Iothlainn De, go dtugtar Sinn |
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In the granary of God, may we be taken |
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Ag Criost an Mhuir, ag Criost an t-iasc |
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With Christ of the sea, with Christ of the fishes |
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I lionta De go gcastar sinn, |
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In the lines of God may we be entwined. |
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O fhas go h-aois, is o aois go bas |
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From growth to age and from age to death |
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Do dha laimh a Chriost anall tharainn |
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Your two hands o Christ hither draw us. |
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O bhas go crioch, ni crioch ach athfhas |
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From death to the end, not the end, but all eternity |
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I bParrthas na nGrast go rabhaimid |
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In paradise of the blessed may we reside. |
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**(This is an old Sean O' Riada air set to words in honor of the pope's visit to |
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Ireland in September 1979. Paddy was one of the first people to introduce this |
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song in it's 'Sean-Nos' style to audiences and congregations on both sides of |
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the Atlantic. It's plaintive, mystical air has been heard at many, many Irish |
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funerals as well as Irish weddings where the lyrics remind all of the eternal |
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cycles of growth, age, death, and beyond to the paradise of the blessed.) |