<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=420178" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>State of Grace</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The bachelor and the spinster<br>stood together, hand in hand, <br>before the Priest who’d wed them<br>in the chapel Kilmainham.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With two prison guards as witnesses<br>there in Kilmainham gaol, <br>Joseph Plunkett and Grace Clifford<br>wed at midnight goes the tale.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At dawn a firing squad awaited<br>her brave bold Fenian man.<br>She’d remember their one, stolen, kiss<br>and the ring placed on her hand.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Her Joseph chose a dark way home<br>when he tweaked the lion’s tail.<br>In martyrdom he found a way<br>to rouse the sons of Gael.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Some marriages last many years, <br>some, a shorter time-<br>but a love that lasts a lifetime<br>is truly hard to find.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Joseph, knowing what he was to lose<br>His love and fate embraced.<br>He died when bullets pierced his heart<br>while in a state of grace.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+F.+McCullagh">John F. McCullagh</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=420178" data-title="State of Grace de John F. McCullagh" data-description="The bachelor and the spinster stood together, hand in hand, before the Priest who’d wed them in the chapel Kilmainham. With two prison guards as witnesses there in Kilmainham gaol, Joseph Plunkett and Grace Clifford wed at midnight goes the t..."></div> </div> </div>

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