Inspired by 'Down by the Salley Gardens' here's a rendering of Yeats' 'The
Second Coming'. I apologise for the barabarism of 'na raw e-raw' ['with body
of the lion']...It's one of my favourite poems so I thought I'd try it. I've
not put in the original text to avoid making this post too long: it's easily
google-able.

i∙Doled Dadui

Hwiniol a hwiniol min ringorn ú-‘leinannen,
Spinning and spinning in the circle not-having-been-bounded
i∙aew-farad û-‘ar lathrado nan *aewben;
the hunting-bird cannot listen to the bird-man;
nadath *godhannar, i∙enedh û-‘âr dartho;
things collapse, the centre cannot hold,
únad dan úmarth erin amar leithar aen;
nothing but evil fate upon the world is released;
i∙aear iâr-‘wathren leithar aen, ah min *ilhaid
the sea blood-shadowy is released, and in all places
i∙chaew e-gur buig danna ’n-uir di∙nên.
The habit of the pure heart falls forever beneath water.
i∙*maerwain ú-‘erir ind dengennin, dan i∙
The best do not have established minds, but the
*faegwain bethrennin na ‘orf ‘oeol.
Worst [are] filled with terrible vigour.

Boe *althobad *na vaw!
An unveiling must be at hand!
Boe i∙doled dadui na vaw!
The Second Coming must be at hand!
i∙doled dadui…Lim i∙phith bennin,
The Second Coming…Quickly the words having-been-said,
ir auth veleg o Faer en-Amar
when a great spectre from Spritus Mundi
presta i∙*chinnen… min lith en-eru,
troubles my eyes…in the sand of the desert,
cant na raw e-raw a nîf en-adan,
a shape with flesh of the lion and face of the man,
glind lost a ben-’ohenad ben Anor,
a glance empty and without-forgiveness like the Sun,
bâd na dail úlim, ah *oswiniar i∙morchaint
walks with unhasty feet, and reel around the shadows
aew lethrin na ruith.
Of desert birds with anger.

*Addanna i∙dhúath; dan si iston
The shadow falls again, but now I know
in∙enninath dadgaen brestennin na ôl deloth
the twenty long-years having-been-troubled to a dream of dread
na chaust e-laes, a man ulunn, i∙lû
by the baby’s bed, and what terrible creature, the time
dollen na vedui, renia na Vethlehem ‘ni onnad în?
Having come at last, strays to Bethlehem for its birth?

GRAMMAR
*aewben: not pleased with this so suggestions most welcome! it's aew 'bird'
+ 'pen', 'person', parallelling 'rochben' 'knight' (i.e. someone who deals
with a horse) and 'orodben' 'mountaineer'...
*godhannar = go+danna 'mutally fall' modelled on Lat. col-lapsare...if only
there was a S. prefix meaning 'apart', like Lat. se-.
*ilhaid: pl. of a possible *ilhad 'everyplace' 'everywhere'. Replace with
'ned haid bain' otherwise.
*maerwain and *faegwain: I know much learned discussion had questioned the
use of the [possible] -wain suffix as a superlative; I'm aware of this but
have seen no other choice for concision and elegance here - my apologies.
*althobad: 'unscreening', 'al-' [neg prefix] + tobad, gerund of toba-
'screen, roof over'
*na vaw: a calque on english 'at hand'
*chinnen = plur. of hend 'eye', + 1st p. possessive suffix, as in 'lammen'
'my tongue', to avoid 'i chin nin' (ouch!)
*oswiniar - prefix os- 'around' + hwinia - > SWIN, 'to twirl'. It might just
as well be *ohwiniar, but I thought I'd retain the -s- as it features in
both the primitive root and prefix. (cf. 'osgar- ' 'amputate' > OS+SCAR)
*addanna: ad 're-' +danna - to fall. Should it be *adhanna-?