| Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900. |
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| Douglas Hyde. b. 1861 |
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858. My Grief on the Sea
FROM THE IRISH |
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| MY grief on the sea, | |
| How the waves of it roll! | |
| For they heave between me | |
| And the love of my soul! | |
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| Abandon'd, forsaken, | 5 |
| To grief and to care, | |
| Will the sea ever waken | |
| Relief from despair? | |
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| My grief and my trouble! | |
| Would he and I were, | 10 |
| In the province of Leinster, | |
| Or County of Clare! | |
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| Were I and my darling— | |
| O heart-bitter wound!— | |
| On board of the ship | 15 |
| For America bound. | |
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| On a green bed of rushes | |
| All last night I lay, | |
| And I flung it abroad | |
| With the heat of the day. | 20 |
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| And my Love came behind me, | |
| He came from the South; | |
| His breast to my bosom, | |
| His mouth to my mouth. | |
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