The Penguin Book of Irish Poetry by Patrick Crotty (ed)

Author:Patrick Crotty (ed)
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Random House UK
Published: 2018-08-27T00:00:00+00:00

‘My heart is a monk’

— Rahaki

My heart is a monk, and thy bosom his cloister:

So sleeps the bright pearl in the shell of the oyster.

Relic of Prince Bayazeed, Son of Suleiman (d. 1561)

Slow through my bosom’s veins their last cold blood is flowing,

Above my heart even now I feel the rank grass growing.

Hence to the Land of Nought! The caravan is starting –

Its bell already tolls the signal for departing.

Rejoice, my soul! Poor bird, thou art at last delivered!

Thy cage is crumbling fast; its bars will soon be shivered.

Farewell, thou troubled world, where Sin and Crime run riot,

For SHAHI henceforth rests in GOD’s own House of Quiet.

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