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On the Bridge of Athlone: A Prophecy<\/b><\/p>\n

I SEE them a mother and daughter
\nAt dusk in a grass-grown lane<\/center>
An old road from nowhere to nowhere<\/center>
Where time has been slain<\/center>
A mother and daughter ragged<\/center>
And brown as a bird on a tree<\/center>
Hair tangled and coarse as the bushes<\/center>
Eye clear as the sea<\/center>
And the land is a sea all about them<\/center>
A green sea of grasses and trees<\/center>
A pole like the mast of a wrecked ship<\/center>
Trails its wires in the breeze<\/center>
And the only things living are insects<\/center>
And rabbits grown strong again<\/center>
And the women haggard as madmen<\/center>
From hunger and rain<\/center>
And the daughter comes running and crying<\/center>
I saw on the Bridge of Athlone<\/center>
A man O mother a man there<\/center>
And he’s passed and is gone again.<\/center>
And men are so few now in Ireland<\/center>
That mother and daughter cry<\/center>
As one might mourn the last angel<\/center>
A kingfisher gone by<\/center>
And they weep for the land that is desolate<\/center>
Green and empty that once was hard won<\/center>
Lot’s daughters with no Lot and no wine-cup<\/center>
To get them a son.<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On the Bridge of Athlone: A Prophecy I SEE them a mother and daughter At dusk in a grass-grown laneAn old road from nowhere to nowhereWhere time has been slainA mother and daughter raggedAnd brown as a bird on a treeHair tangled and coarse as the bushesEye clear as the seaAnd the land is a sea all about themA green sea of grasses and treesA pole like the mast of a wrecked shipTrails its wires in the breezeAnd the only things living are insectsAnd rabbits grown strong againAnd the women haggard as madmenFrom hunger and rainAnd the daughter comes running and cryingI saw on the Bridge of AthloneA man O mother a man thereAnd he’s passed and is gone again.And…
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