Vale` – Father Pat (John O Brien Poems)
Yes, that's the hardest hand at all upon my frosted head-That telegram that brought the news that Father Pat is ...
Yes, that's the hardest hand at all upon my frosted head-That telegram that brought the news that Father Pat is ...
He comes when the gullies are wrapped in the gloaming,And lime-lights are trained on the tops of the gums,To stand ...
Faith, 'tis good to see him comin' when the bell for Mass is flingin'Gladsome golden notes appealin' on the Sabbath-softened ...
They have brought the news, my darlin', that I've waited for so long.Faith, 'twas little news they brought me; every ...
"We'll all be rooned," said HanrahanIn accents most forlornOutside the church ere Mass beganOne frosty Sunday morn.The congregation stood about,Coat-collars ...
Said the white-haired priest, "So the boy has come, And the old, old dreams are o'er you,And you give no thought ...
A simple thing of knotted pine And corrugated tin;But still, to those who read, a sign,A fortress on the farthest line Against ...
They hadn't met for fifty years, or was it fifty-one ?They'd parted when their ship arrived their separate ways to ...
Through the hush of my heart in the spell of its dreaming Comes the song of a bush boy glad-hearted and ...
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