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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DEATH AND THE FAIRIES, by PATRICK MACGILL Poet's Biography
First Line: Before I joined the army
Last Line: Who is holding carnival.
Subject(s): Flanders, Belgium; World War I; First World War
First Line: Before I joined the army
Last Line: Who is holding carnival.
Subject(s): Flanders, Belgium; World War I; First World War
Before I joined the Army
I lived in Donegal,
Where every night the Fairies
Would hold their carnival.
But now I'm out in Flanders,
Where men like wheat-ears fall,
And it's Death and not the Fairies
Who is holding carnival.
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