The Gombeen-Man (The Rocky Road To Dublin)

"Listen! If but women were     Half as kind as they are fair     There would be an end to all     Miseries that do appal.     Cloud and wind w"

"The mountains stand and stare around,             They are far too proud to speak;         Altho' they're rooted in the ground,"

"We thought at first, this man is a king for sure,         Or the branch of a mighty and ancient and famous lineage,         That silly, sul"

"In the scented bud of the morning - O,     When the windy grass went rippling far,     I saw my dear one walking slow     In the field where th"

"Here morning in the ploughman's songs is met     Ere yet one footstep shows in all the sky,     And twilight in the east, a doubt as yet,     S"

"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"