Katharine Tynan Poems

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21.
A Prayer { For Those Who Shall Return}

LORD, when they come back again
From the dreadful battlefield
To the common ways of men,
Be Thy mercy, Lord, revealed!
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22.
A Birth-Night Song

The Child is rocked on Mary's knee,
Cold in the stall this bitter night,
And 'Lullalay-loo,' soft singeth she,
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23.
The End Of The Day

The night darkens fast & the shadows darken,
Clouds & the rain gather about mine house,
Only the wood-dove moans, hearken, O hearken!
The moan of the wood-dove in the rain-wet boughs.
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24.
Dead- A Prisoner

He died the loneliest death of all,
Amid his foes he died.
But Someone's leaped the outer wall
And Someone's come inside,
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25.
After Ascension

Those twelve years from Ascension
Until the day of meeting broke,
She was not so much all alone
As it might seem to common folk,
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26.
Colours

Blues and greens are my delight
Set in garlands of the white.
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27.
Christmas In The Year Of The War

The stem, the branch quickeneth
With sap, this year of Death.
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28.
St. Francis And The Birds

Little sisters, the birds:
We must praise God, you and I­
You, with songs that fill the sky,
I, with halting words.
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29.
Winter Sunset

Roses in the sky,
Roses in the sea
Bowers of scarlet sky-roses
Take my heart and me.
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30.
Comfort

Now she need dread no more to grow
Too old for him, she need not know
The bitterness when he who was
All hers turns to some younger face,
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