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Слушать(AI)In Memory Of John Butler Yeats
HT," you said, "to-night, all Ireland
The curlews call." The dinner-talk went on,
And I knew what you heard and what you saw,
That left you for a little while withdrawn-The lonely land, the lonely-crying birds!
Your words, your breath is gone!
O uncaught spirit, we'll remember
By those remote and ever-flying
Adown the Shannon's reach, or crying
The mist between Clew Bay and Dublin Bay!
Padraic Colum
Padraic Colum (8 December 1881 – 11 January 1972) was an Irish poet, novelist, dramatist, biographer, playwright, children's author and collecto
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