Farm Ferdia

Two cocks in perpetual conflict, farmyard Ferdia

His blood unforded in red rivers

Affording him not a moment more of life

Let that living cock be the cream and crow the dawn

His beak steelruinous with oft-pecking, let the bán

Breasted hen be his bridebird, bridled by the byre

The barnyard and its brazen barriers their brawn, their bawn

Dawn drawn on with penned song and rubble-loving fire

Sun pawn to his song, sings long 

His talons the talliers, every hen with which he dallianced

Gives birth to a future champion.

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