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O'Connell Bridge (The Rocky Road To Dublin)

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In Dublin town the people see         Gorgeous clouds sail gorgeously,         They are finer, I declare,         Than the clouds of anywhere.         A swirl of blue and red and green,         A stream of blinding gold, a sheen         From silver hill and pearly ridge         Comes each evening on the bridge.         So when you walk in a field, look down,         Lest you tramp on a daisy's crown,         But in a city look always high         And watch the beautiful clouds go by.

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"The Text is taken from Percy's Reliques (1765), vol. i. p. 71, 'given from two MS. copies, transmitted from Scotland.' Herd had a very similar bal"

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