Tag: Peace
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The Well-Known Spot
A Poem by an Unknown late 19th Century Irish Poet Again, with joy I view the waking shore, Where mem’ries live for ever in their green, And from the solemn graveyard’s checkered floor Gaze fondly o’er the all-enchanting scene. The same sad rooks awake their mocking cries, And drooping willows weep the early grave, As […]
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THE CHURCH OF BALLYMORE.
I HAVE knelt in great cathedrals with their wondrous naves and aisles, Whose fairy arches blend and interlace, Where the sunlight on the paintings like a ray of glory smiles, And the shadows seem to sanctify the place; Where the organ’s tones, like echoes of an angel’s trumpet roll, Wafted down by seraph wings from […]
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