Ireland unfreed Poems and verses written in the early months of 1921 by Sir William Watson |
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TO AMERICA CONCERNING IRELAND |
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TO AMERICA CONCERNING IRELAND
Friend with frank tongue, who o'er the unflattering seaDost likewise flatter not: who view'st the maze
And tangle of things through no vague-shimmering haze:
Pledge thou thy word, that if, long urged by thee,
We loose her bonds and set the Thralled One free,
That Morn-fair deed, crowned with Man's golden praise,
Shall not for us, in thy consenting gaze,
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Then shall we know that some who else might mar
The Dayspring, and drag Midnight from its grave—
Some whose imperial dreams are loth to die—
Will listen first beside the Western Wave:
Will hear thy thundered interdict afar,
And flee in terror lest they hear it nigh.
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