Padraic Colum (1881–1972). Anthology of Irish Verse. 1922.
By Shane Leslie81. Muckish Mountain (The Pigs Back)
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Muckish, thou art shadowed out,
Grubbing up the rubble of the ages
With your broken, granite snout.
Littered out of rock and fire,
Deep you thrust your mottled flanks for cooling
Underneath the peaty mire.
You were ribbed and old and grey,
Muckish, you have long outstayed his staying,
You have seen him swept away.
Of the laughing speech and eye,
They who gave you name of Pig-back-mountain
And the Heavens for a sty!