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Padraic Colum (1881–1972). Anthology of Irish Verse. 1922.

By Thomas MacDonagh

163. On a Poet Patriot

HIS songs were a little phrase

Of eternal song,

Drowned in the harping of lays

More loud and long.

His deed was a single word,

Called out alone

In a night when no echo stirred

To laughter or moan.

But his songs new souls shall thrill,

The loud harps dumb,

And his deed the echoes fill

When the dawn is come.