Aubrey Thomas De Vere (Обри Томас Де Вер)

Kinsale

WHAT man can stand amid a place of tombs,
  Nor yearn to that poor vanquished dust beneath?
Above a nation’s grave no violet blooms;
  A vanquished nation lies in endless death.

’T is past: the dark is dense with ghost and vision!
  All lost; the air is thronged with moan and wail:
But one day more and hope had been fruition:
  O Athunree, thy fate o’erhung Kinsale!

What name is that which lays on every head
  A hand like fire, striking strong locks gray?
What name is named not save with shame and dread?
  Once let us name it,—then no more for aye!

Kinsale! accursed be he the first who bragged
  “A city stands where roamed but late the flock”;
Accursed the day when, from the mountain dragged,
  Thy corner-stone forsook the mother-rock!

1. A Ballad of Athlone; Or, How They Broke down the Bridge
2. To a Flower on the Skirts of Mont Blanc
3. Roisin Dubh; Or, the Bleeding Heart
4. Composed at Rydal, September, 1860
5. The Dirge of Athunree

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