Ireland unfreed Poems and verses written in the early months of 1921 by Sir William Watson |
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MORE THAN TROPHIES |
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MORE THAN TROPHIES
Ev'n were thy freeing complete,The marks thy fetters made
Could not for ever in a moment fade,
O Erin, from thy feet!
Why should they? 'Twere more meet
That they remained, to be in times afar
Held sacred, when perhaps mere glorying Power,
And all its idols of an age or hour,
Unreverenced are.
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