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James Clarence Mangan (Джеймс Кларенс Манган) Duhallow FAR away from my friends, On the chill hills of Galway, My heart droops and bends, And my spirit pines alway,— ’T is as not when I roved With the wild rakes of Mallow,— All is here unbeloved, And I sigh for Duhallow. My sweetheart was cold, Or in sooth I ’d have wept her,— Ah, that love should grow old And decline from his sceptre, While the heart’s feelings yet Seem so tender and callow! But I deeplier regret My lost home in Duhallow! My steed is no more, And my hounds roam unyelling; Grass waves at the door Of my dark-windowed dwelling. Through sunshine and storm Corrach’s acres lie fallow; Would Heaven I were warm Once again in Duhallow! In the blackness of night, In the depth of disaster, My heart were more light Could I call myself master Of Corrach once more Than if here I might wallow In gold thick as gore Far away from Duhallow! I loved Italy’s show In the years of my greenness, Till I saw the deep woe, The debasement, the meanness, That rot that bright land! I have since grown less shallow, And would now rather stand In a bog in Duhallow! This place I ’m in here, On the gray hills of Galway, I like for its cheer Well enough in a small way; But the men are all short, And the women all sallow; Give M’Quillan his quart Of brown ale in Duhallow. My sporting days o’er, And my love-days gone after, Not earth could restore Me my old life and laughter. Burns now my breast’s flame Like a dim wick of tallow, Yet I love thee the same As at twenty, Duhallow! But my hopes, like my rhymes, Are consumed and expended; What ’s the use of old times When our time is now ended? Drop the talk! Death will come For the debt that we all owe, And the grave is a home Quite as old as Duhallow! James Clarence Mangan's other poems:
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