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Selected poems by John Millington Synge (Author: John Millington Synge)

poem 2

On an Anniversary

After reading the dates in a book of Lyrics

1. With Fifteen-ninety or Sixteen-sixteen
   We end Cervantes, Marot, Nashe or Green;
   Then Sixteen-thirteen till two score and nine,
   Is Crashaw's niche, that honey-lipped divine.
   And so when all my little work is done
   They'll say I came in Eighteen-seventy-one,
   And died in Dublin ... What year will they write
   For my poor passage to the stall of night?

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