Young Woman Reading by a Window - Delphin Enjolras Joining the Colours (West Kents, Dublin, 1914) There they go marching all in step so gay! Smooth-cheeked and golden, food for shells and guns. Blithely they go as to a wedding day, The mothers' sons. The drab street stares to see them row on row On the high tram-tops, singing like the lark. Too careless-gay for courage, singing they go Into the dark. With tin whistles, mouth-organs, any noise, They pipe the way to glory and the grave; Foolish and young, the gay and golden boys Love cannot save. High heart! High courage! The poor girls they kissed Run with them: they shall kiss no more, alas! Out of the mist they stepped - into the mist Singing they pass. Katharine Tynan (23rd January 1861 - 2nd April 1931) from the book: Poem for the Day One |
Thursday 7 June 2012
The Thursday Poem
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