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Why do ye torture me? (Author: Pádraic H. Pearse)

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1. 1] Why are ye torturing me, O desires of my heart ?
   2] Torturing me and paining me by day and by night?
   3] Hunting me as a poor deer would be hunted on a hill,
   4] A poor long-wearied deer with the hound-pack after him
2. 5] There's no ease to my paining in the loneliness of the hills,
   6] But the cry of the hunters terrifically to be heard,
   7] The cry of my desires haunting me without respite,—
   8] O ravening hounds, long is your run!
3. 9] No satisfying can come to my desires while I live,
   10] For the satisfaction I desired yesterday is no satisfaction,
   11] And the hound-pack is the greedier of the satisfaction it has got,—
   12] And forever I shall not sleep till I sleep in the grave.