Padraic Colum Poems

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41.
The Resplendent Quetzal-Bird

OTHERS have divers paints and enamels,
Lavish and bright on breast and wing feathers:
You, Guatemalan, have sunken all colours
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42.
Snake

BUT, Snake, you must not come where we abide,
For you would tempt us; we should hear you say:
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43.
The Knitters

IN companies or lone
They bend their heads, their hands
They busy with their gear,
Accomplishing the stitch
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44.
Achill Girl's Song

I’d bring you these for dowry
A field from heather free,
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45.
Bird Of Paradise

WITH sapphire for her crown,
And with the Libyan wine
For lustre of her eyes;
With azure on her feet
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46.
The City Clocks

THE City clocks point out the hours
They look like moons on their darkened towers-
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47.
The Tin-Whistle Player

'Tis long since, long since, since I heard
A tin-whistle played,
And heard the tunes, the ha'penny tunes
That nobody made!
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48.
The Landing

THE great ship lantern-girdled.
The tender standing by;
The waning stars cloud-shrouded,
The land that we descry!
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49.
At Cashel

ABOVE me stand, worn from their ancient use,
The King's, the Bishop's, and the Warrior's house,
Quiet as folds upon a grassy knoll:
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50.
The Poet

'THE blackbird's in the briar,
The seagull's on the ground-
They are nests, and they're more than nests,' he said,
'They are tokens I have found.
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