Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Ireland: Vol. V. 1876–79. | | | | Miscellaneous | | Soggarth Aroon | | John Banim (1798–1842) |
| | | AM I a slave they say, | |
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| Since you did show the way, | |
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| Their slave no more to be, | 5 |
| While they would work with me | |
| Ould Ireland’s slavery, | |
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| Why not her poorest man, | |
| Soggarth Aroon, | 10 |
| Try and do all he can, | |
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| Her commands to fulfil | |
| Of his own heart and will, | |
| Side by side with you still, | 15 |
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| Loyal and brave to you, | |
| Soggarth Aroon, | |
| Yet be no slave to you, | |
| Soggarth Aroon,— | 20 |
| Nor, out of fear to you— | |
| Stand up so near to you— | |
| Och! out of fear to you! | |
| Soggarth Aroon! | |
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| Who, in the winter’s night, | 25 |
| Soggarth Aroon, | |
| When the could blast did bite, | |
| Soggarth Aroon, | |
| Came to my cabin-door, | |
| And, on my earthen flure, | 30 |
| Knelt by me, sick and poor, | |
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| Who, on the marriage-day, | |
| Soggarth Aroon, | |
| Made the poor cabin gay, | 35 |
| Soggarth Aroon,— | |
| And did both laugh and sing, | |
| Making our hearts to ring, | |
| At the poor christening, | |
| Soggarth Aroon? | 40 |
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| Who, as friend only met, | |
| Soggarth Aroon, | |
| Never did flout me yet, | |
| Soggarth Aroon? | |
| And when my hearth was dim, | 45 |
| Gave, while his eye did brim, | |
| What I should give to him, | |
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| Och! you, and only you, | |
| Soggarth Aroon! | 50 |
| And for this I was true to you, | |
| Soggarth Aroon; | |
| In love they ’ll never shake, | |
| When for ould Ireland’s sake, | |
| We a true part did take, | 55 |
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