| Padraic Colum (1881–1972). Anthology of Irish Verse. 1922. |
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| 139. A Song of Freedom |
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| By Alice Mulligan |
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| IN CAVAN of little lakes, | |
| As I was walking with the wind, | |
| And no one seen beside me there, | |
| There came a song into my mind; | |
| It came as if the whispered voice | 5 |
| Of one, but none of human kind, | |
| Who walked with me in Cavan then, | |
| And he invisible as wind. | |
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| On Urris of Inish-Owen, | |
| As I went up the mountain side, | 10 |
| The brook that came leaping down | |
| Cried to me—for joy it cried; | |
| And when from off the summit far | |
| I looked o’er land and water wide, | |
| I was more joyous than the brook | 15 |
| That met me on the mountain side. | |
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| To Ara of Connacht’s isles, | |
| As I went sailing o’er the sea, | |
| The wind’s word, the brook’s word, | |
| The wave’s word, was plain to me— | 20 |
| As we are, though she is not, | |
| As we are, shall Banba be— | |
| There is no king can rule the wind, | |
| There is no fetter for the sea. | |
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