<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=428761" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Wild Geese</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">(A Lament for the Irish Jacobites.)</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I have heard the curlew crying<br>On a lonely moor and mere;<br>And the sea-gull's shriek in the gloaming<br>Is a lonely sound in the ear:<br>And I've heard the brown thrush mourning<br>For her children stolen away;--<br>But it's O for the homeless Wild Geese<br>That sailed ere the dawn of day!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the curlew out on the moorland<br>Hath five fine eggs in the nest;<br>And the thrush will get her a new love<br>And sing her song with the best.<br>As the swallow flies to the Summer<br>Will the gull return to the sea:<br>But never the wings of the Wild Geese<br>Will flash over seas to me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And 'tis ill to be roaming, roaming<br>With homesick heart in the breast!<br>And how long I've looked for your coming,<br>And my heart is the empty nest!<br>O sore in the land of the stranger<br>They'll pine for the land far away!<br>But day of Aughrim, my sorrow,<br>It was you was the bitter day!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Katharine+Tynan">Katharine Tynan</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=428761" data-title="Wild Geese de Katharine Tynan" data-description="(A Lament for the Irish Jacobites.) I have heard the curlew crying On a lonely moor and mere; And the sea-gull's shriek in the gloaming Is a lonely sound in the ear: And I've heard the brown thrush mourning For her children stolen away;-- But it'..."></div> </div> </div>

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