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HOME-LONGINGS: GWEEDORE, COUNTY DONEGAL, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I, wandering hither listless from afar
Last Line: And take farewell of all without a sigh.
Subject(s): Homesickness


I, WANDERING hither listless from afar,
Have drunk within this Vale a two days' bliss.
Dear were the noises of the tempest's war
On the rough beach, and dear the torrent's brawl
Thundering on high, and dear the sunset's kiss
Flushing the peak of pallid Errigal.
Yet, since to lonely men full many a time
God seems far off where human love is small,
And other vales, through Memory sublime,
Await me, and the Sacred Ashes lie
By gentler seas beside a tamer shore --
I leave the wild Atlantic's jubilant roar,
The scarped cliffs that scowl against the sky,
The lough, and barren dales, and mountain hoar,
And take farewell of all without a sigh.





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