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Out upon the sand dunes thrive the coarse long grasses	A
Herons standing knee deep in the brackish pool	B
Overhead the sunset fire and flame amasses	C
And the moon to eastward rises pale and cool	B
Rose and green around her silver gray and pearly	D
Chequered with the black rooks flying home to bed	E
For to wake at daybreak birds must couch them early	D
And the day's a long one since the dawn was red	E
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On the chilly lakelet in that pleasant gloaming	F
See the sad swans sailing they shall have no rest	G
Never a voice to greet them save the bittern's booming	F
Where the ghostly sallows sway against the West	G
'Sister ' saith the gray swan 'Sister I am weary '	-
Turning to the white swan wet despairing eyes	H
'O' she saith 'my young one O' she saith 'my dearie '	-
Casts her wings about him with a storm of cries	H
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Woe for Lir's sweet children whom their vile stepmother	I
Glamoured with her witch spells for a thousand years	J
Died their father raving on his throne another	I
Blind before the end came from the burning tears	K
Long the swans have wandered over lake and river	I
Gone is all the glory of the race of Lir	I
Gone and long forgotten like a dream of fever	I
But the swans remember the sweet days that were	I
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Hugh the black and white swan with the beauteous feathers	L
Fiachra the black swan with the emerald breast	G
Conn the youngest dearest sheltered in all weathers	L
Him his snow white sister loves the tenderest	G
These her mother gave her as she lay a dying	F
To her faithful keeping faithful hath she been	M
With her wings spread o'er them when the tempest's crying	F
And her songs so hopeful when the sky's serene	N
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Other swans have nests made 'mid the reeds and rushes	A
Lined with downy feathers where the cygnets sleep	O
Dreaming if a bird dreams till the daylight blushes	A
Then they sail out swiftly on the current deep	O
With the proud swan father tall and strong and stately	D
And the mild swan mother grave with household cares	K
All well born and comely all rejoicing greatly	D
Full of honest pleasure is a life like theirs	K
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But alas for my swans with the human nature	I
Sick with human longings starved for human ties	H
With their hearts all human cramped to a bird's stature	I
And the human weeping in the bird's soft eyes	H
Never shall my swans build nests in some green river	I
Never fly to Southward in the autumn gray	I
Rear no tender children love no mates for ever	I
Robbed alike of bird's joys and of man's are they	I
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Babbles Conn the youngest 'Sister I remember	I
At my father's palace how I went in silk	P
Ate the juicy deer flesh roasted from the ember	I
Drank from golden goblets my child's draught of milk	P
Once I rode a hunting laughed to see the hurry	D
Shouted at the ball play on the lake did row	I
You had for your beauty gauds that shone so rarely '	-
'Peace' saith Fionnuala 'that was long ago '	-
	-
'Sister ' saith Fiachra 'well do I remember	I
How the flaming torches lit the banquet hall	Q
And the fire leapt skyward in the mid December	I
And among the rushes slept our staghounds tall	Q
By our father's right hand you sat shyly gazing	F
Smiling half and sighing with your eyes a glow	I
As the bards sang loudly all your beauty praising '	-
'Peace ' saith Fionnuala 'that was long ago '	-
	-
'Sister ' then saith Hugh 'most do I remember	I
One I called my brother one earth's goodliest man	R
Strong as forest oaks are where the wild vines clamber	I
First at feast or hunting in the battle's van	R
Angus you were handsome wise and true and tender	I
Loved by every comrade feared by every foe	I
Low low lies your beauty all forgot your splendour '	-
'Peace ' saith Fionnuala 'that was long ago '	-
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Dews are in the clear air and the roselight paling	F
Over sands and sedges shines the evening star	I
And the moon's disc lonely high in heaven is sailing	F
Silvered all the spear heads of the rushes are	I
Housed warm are all things as the night grows colder	I
Water fowl and sky fowl dreamless in the nest	G
But the swans go drifting drooping wing and shoulder	I
Cleaving the still water where the fishes rest	G

Katharine Tynan

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