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Music by Rosemary Marr |
Four Poems
by. Patrick Kavanagh. Background music Raglan Road. |
. Read about Kavanagh. |
'Raglan Road'
On Raglan Road on an autumn day
I met her first and knew On Grafton Street in November we
tripped lightly along the ledge I gave her gifts of the mind I gave
her the secret sign that's known On a quiet street where old ghosts
meet I see her walking now |
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Innocence.
They
laughed at one I loved-
The triangular hill that hung Under the Big Forth. They said That I was bounded by the whitethorn hedges Of the little farm and did not know the world. But I knew that love's doorway to life Is the same doorway everywhere. Ashamed of what I loved I flung her from me and called her a ditch Although she was smiling at me with violets. But now I am back in her briary
arms I do not know what age I am, |
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Shancoduff .
My black hills have never seen the
sun rising, My hills hoard the bright shillings
of March The sleety winds fondle the the
rushy beards of Shancoduff |
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Stony Grey Soil.
O
stony grey soil of Monaghan You told me the plough was immortal! You sang on steaming dunghills You flung a ditch on my vision Lost the long hours of pleasure His name in these lonely verses Mullahinsa, Drummeril, Black Shanco- Background Music
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