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To day i felt as poor O Brien did	A
When turning from all else that was not his	B
He took himself to that which was his own	C
He took him to his verse for other all he had not	D
And tho man will crave and seek	E
Another all than this he did not need	F
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So pen in hand he tried to tell the whole tale of his woe	G
In rhyming lodge the full weight of his grief in versing and so did	A
Then when his poem had been conned and cared	H
And all put in that should not be left out did he not find and with astonishment	I
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That grief had been translated or was come	J
Other and better than it first looked to be	K
And that this happened because all things transfer	L
From what they seem to what they truly are	M
When they are innocently brooded on	N
And so The poet makes grief beautiful	O
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Behold me now with my back to the wall	P
Playing music to empty pockets	Q
So Raferty tuning a blind mans plight	R
Could sing the cark of misery away	S
And know in blindness and in poverty	K
That woe was not of him nor kind to him	T
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And Egan Rahilly begins a verse	U
My heart is broken and my mind is sad	V
Twas surely true when he began his song	W
And was less true when he had finished it	X
Be sure his heart was buoyant and his grief	Y
Drummed and trumpeted as grief was sung	Z
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For as he meditated misery	K
And cared it into song Strict Care Strict Joy	A2
Caring for grief he cared his grief away	S
And those sad songs tho woe be all the theme	B2
Do not make us grieve who read them now	C2
Because the poet makes grief beautiful	O
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And I myself conning a lonely heart	D2
Full lonely twas and tis as lonely now	C2
Turned me by proper to my natural	O
And now too long her vagrant wooed my muse	E2
Then to her let us look more close to these	F2
And seeing know and knowing be at ease	F2
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Seeing the sky o ercast and that the rain had	V
Plashed the window and would plash again	G2
Seeing the summer lost and the winter nigh	H2
Seeing inapt and sad and fallen from good	I2
Seeing how will was weak and wish o erbearing	Z
Seeing inconstant seeing timidity	K
Seeing too small too poor in this and yon	N
Seeing life daily grow more difficult	J2
Seeing all that moves away moving away	S
And that all seeing is a blind mans treat	K2
And that all getting is a beggars dole	L2
And that all having is bankruptcy	K
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All these sad all I told to my good friend	M2
Told Raferty O Brien Rahilly	K
Told rain and frosted blossom and the summer gone	N2
Told poets dead and captains dead and kings	O2
And we cared naught that these were mournful things	O2
For caring them we made them beautiful	O

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