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The Wayfarer (Author: Pádraic H. Pearse)
p.341
- 1] The beauty of the world hath made me sad,
2] This beauty that will pass;
3] Sometimes my heart hath shaken with great joy
4] To see a leaping squirrel in a tree,
5] Or a red lady-bird upon a stalk,
6] Or little rabbits in a field at evening,
7] Lit by a slanting sun,
8] Or some green hill where shadows drifted by
9] Some quiet hill where mountailly man hath sown
10] And soon would reap; near to the gate of Heaven;
11] Or children with bare feet upon the sands
12] Of some ebbed sea, or playing on the streets
13] Of little towns in Connacht,
14] Things young and happy.
15] And then my heart hath told me:
16] These will pass,
17] Will pass and change, will die and be no more,
18] Things bright and green, things young and happy;
19] And I have gone upon my way
20] Sorrowful.