Padraic Colum Poems

SHALL I go bound and you go free,
And love one so removed from me?
Not so; the falcon o'er my brow
Hath better quest, I dare avow!
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'Lost,' 'lost,' the beeves and the bullocks,
The cattle men sell and buy,
Crowded upon the fair green,
Low to the lightless sky.
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WE wander now who marched before,
Hawking our bran from door to door,
While other men from the mill take their flour:
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'BELOW there are white-faced throngs,
Their march is a tide coming Higher;
Below there are white-faced throngs,
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ERE Beowulf's song
Was heard from the ships,
Ere Roland had set
The horn to his lips:
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How great a front is thine
A lake of majesty!
Assyria knew the sign
The god-incarnate king!
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I AM sitting here
Since the moon rose in the night,
Kindling a fire,
And striving to keep it alight;
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THOROUGH waters, thorough nations I have come
To lay last offerings at your low abode,
Brother, and to appeal
To ashes that were you.
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'I KNOW where I'd get
An ass that would do,
If I had the money
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IN broad daylight
He should not be:
Yet toward and froward,
Froward and toward
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