Sean O'Cosgair
Pity it was that you should ever stand In ship or boat, Or that you went afloat Inside that ship! The lusty steps you took! The ways and journeys you knew how to wend From London back to Beltra, And this end! You who could swim so well! What time you sported in the lifting tides The girls swam out to you, and held your sides When they were weary, for they knew they were Safe, because you were there. Your little-mother thought that this was true (And so she made no stir Till you were found), Although an hundred might be drownd, you Would come back safe to her, And not be drowned!
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"Pity it was that you should ever stand..."
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