Stone And Sea Poem by jim hogg

You rows and rows of teachers' hopes
Remember if you have the time
The creelers drowned and swept away
Their wives and families standing by
The vast and lonely ocean's reach
And miners locked beneath the stone
Their loved ones lost and waiting on
Above them on the stony land

And though they'll never come to terms
They'll tend their stock and mend their walls
Until they must themselves give way
To find their peace without complaint
Where daffodils lie down to rest
Beneath the sod or on the wind

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