The '98 Reader by Padraic O' Farrell

Author:Padraic O' Farrell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: song, prose, poetry, French Revolution, Irish Rebellion, American Revolution, ballads, folklore, John Keegan Casey, P.J. McCall, Thomas Moore, Thomas Davis, Alice Milligan, William Drennan, William Rooney, Ethna Carbery, Theobald Wolfe Tone, Charles Teeling, Robert Emmet, Jonah Barrington, Maria Edgeworth
ISBN: 9781843515128
Publisher: The Lilliput Press
Published: 2013-05-21T04:00:00+00:00

the wind that shakes the barley

Robert Dwyer Joyce

A young man talks of his love for a woman and for his country. He opts to fight and his woman becomes another innocent victim of violence.

I sat within the valley green;

I sat me with my true love.

My sad heart strove the two between,

The old love and the new love:

The old for her, the new that made

Me think on Ireland dearly

While soft the wind blew down the glen

And shook the golden barley.

’Twas hard the woeful words to frame

To break the ties that bound us,

But harder still to bear the shame

Of foreign chains around us.

And so I said ‘The mountain glen

I’ll seek at morning early

And join the bold United men,

While soft winds shake the barley.’

While sad I kissed away her tears,

My fond arms round her flinging,

The yeoman’s shot burst on our ears

From out the wildwood ringing.

A bullet pierced my true love’s side

In life’s young spring so early,

And on my breast in blood she died

While soft winds shook the barley.

But blood for blood without remorse

I took at Oulart Hollow,

And laid my true love’s clay cold corpse

Where I full soon may follow,

As round her grave I wander drear,

Noon, night and morning early,

With breaking heart when e’er I hear

The wind that shakes the barley.

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