Michael Earls Song Poems
- 1. The Young Adventurers
We will go adventuring, will you come adventuring,
Hail, to all who sail with us the seven pleasant seas:
All the shores with lily bells, all the flutes of woodland dells
Are calling like a legend upon a fragrant breeze.
... - 2. A Winter Minster
(For Fr. C. L. O'Donnell)
The interlacing trees
... - 3. Old Hudson Rovers
Send us back the olden knights, tell no law to track 'em,
Give to boy and maid the storytellers as of yore,
Millionaires in legend-wealth, though no bank would back 'em,
But old Benny Havens by the West Point Shore.
... - 4. Linden Lane
HOLY CROSS: MAY, 1917
(For Major Joseph W. O'Connor, '03)
... - 5. Two Seanichies
(For Aedh)
'Tis the queerest trade we have, the two of us that go about,
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