Poet Padraic Colum

Padraic Colum

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A Poor Scholar Of The 'forties Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCDD EFGFGHH IJIJK JLMLMNO

MY eyelids red and heavy arcA
With bending o'er the smold'ring peatB
I know the Aeneid now by heartC
My Virgil read in cold and heatB
In loneliness and hunger smartC
And I know Homer too I weenD
As Munster poets know OssianD
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And I must walk this road that windsE
Twixt bog and bog while east there liesF
A city with its men and booksG
With treasures open to the wiseF
Heart words from equals comrade looksG
Down here they have but tale and songH
They talk Repeal the whole night longH
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'You teach Greek verbs and Latin nouns '-
The dreamer of Young Ireland saidI
'You do not hear the muffled callJ
The sword being forged the far off treadI
Of hosts to meet as Gael and GallJ
What good to us your wisdom storeK
Your Latin verse your Grecian lore '-
And what to me is Gael or GallJ
Less than the Latin or the GreekL
I teach these by the dim rush lightM
In smoky cabins night and weekL
But what avail my teaching slightM
Years hence in rustic speech a phraseN
As in wild earth a Grecian vaseO

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