<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=391926" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Dead Kings</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">All the dead kings came to me<br>At Rosnaree, where I was dreaming.<br>A few stars glimmered through the morn,<br>And down the thorn the dews were streaming.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And every dead king had a story<br>Of ancient glory, sweetly told.<br>It was too early for the lark,<br>But the starry dark had tints of gold.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I listened to the sorrows three<br>Of that Eire passed into song.<br>A cock crowed near a hazel croft,<br>And up aloft dim larks winged strong.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>And I, too, told the kings a story<br>Of later glory, her fourth sorrow:<br>There was a sound like moving shields<br>In high green fields and the lowland furrow.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And one said : ' We who yet are kings<br>Have heard these things lamenting inly.'<br>Sweet music flowed from many a bill<br>And on the hill the morn stood queenly.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And one said : ' Over is the singing,<br>And bell bough ringing, whence we come ;<br>With heavy hearts we'll tread the shadows,<br>In honey meadows birds are dumb.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And one said : ' Since the poets perished<br>And all they cherished in the way,<br>Their thoughts unsung, like petal showers<br>Inflame the hours of blue and gray.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And one said : ' A loud tramp of men<br>We'll hear again at Rosnaree.'<br>A bomb burst near me where I lay.<br>I woke, 'twas day in Picardy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Francis+Ledwidge">Francis Ledwidge</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=391926" data-title="The Dead Kings de Francis Ledwidge" data-description="All the dead kings came to me At Rosnaree, where I was dreaming. A few stars glimmered through the morn, And down the thorn the dews were streaming. And every dead king had a story Of ancient glory, sweetly told. It was too early for the lark, Bu..."></div> </div> </div>

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