Ireland unfreed Poems and verses written in the early months of 1921 by Sir William Watson |
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TO ERIN ONCE MORE |
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TO ERIN ONCE MORE
Upon that Day when thou among thy peersShalt take the place that is by right thine own,
Judge not of England with a mind too prone
To harsh, hard thoughts! Though oft her palsying fears
Did freeze up noble purpose, hers were tears
For the world's heartache—hers no breast of stone.
She wronged thee much: but speak not blame alone,
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And when, disburdened of a cumbering weight,
Thou from the transitory and fugitive—
From thy dead yesterdays—art loosed, to live
At peace with God and Man and Time and Fate,
Be thine the greatness of the more than great,
Whose glory it is, divinely to forgive.
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