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AT BALLYSHANNON, CO. DONEGAL by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM

First Line: THE BOY FROM HIS BEDROOM-WINDOW
Last Line: WHETHER WITHIN OR WITHOUT ME %THEY WERE, I CANNOT SAY
Subject(s): MEMORY;
The Boy from his bedroom-window
Look'd over the little town,
And away to the bleak black upland
Under a clouded moon.


The moon came forth from her cavern,
He saw the sudden gleam
Of a tarn in the swarthy moorland;
Or perhaps the whole was a dream.


For I never could find that water
In all my walks and rides:
Far-off, in the Land of Memory,
That midnight pool abides.


Many fine things had I glimpse of,
And said, 'I shall find them one day.'
Whether within or without me
They were, I cannot say.




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