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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SEUMAS BEG, by JAMES STEPHENS Poet's Biography
First Line: A man was sitting underneath a tree
Last Line: He was a real nice man! He liked me too!
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish
First Line: A man was sitting underneath a tree
Last Line: He was a real nice man! He liked me too!
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish
A man was sitting underneath a tree
Outside the village; and he asked me what
Name was upon this place; and said that he
Was never here before -- He told a lot
Of stories to me too. His nose was flat!
I asked him how it happened, and he said
-- The first mate of the Holy Ghost did that
With a marling-spike one day; but he was dead;
And jolly good job too; and he'd have gone
A long way to have killed him -- Oh, he had
A gold ring in one ear; the other one
-- "Was bit off by a crocodile, bedad!" --
That's what he said. He taught me how to chew!
He was a real nice man! He liked me too!
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