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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE SILENCE OF UNLABOURED FIELDS, by JOSEPH CAMPBELL Poet's Biography
First Line: The silence of unlaboured fields
Last Line: But better human flesh and blood!
Alternate Author Name(s): Ultach; Maccathmhaoil, Seosamh
Subject(s): Mankind; Farm Life
First Line: The silence of unlaboured fields
Last Line: But better human flesh and blood!
Alternate Author Name(s): Ultach; Maccathmhaoil, Seosamh
Subject(s): Mankind; Farm Life
THE silence of unlaboured fields
Lies like a judgement on the air:
A human voice is never heard:
The sighing grass is everywhere --
The sighing grass, the shadowed sky,
The cattle crying wearily!
Where are the lowland people gone?
Where are the sun-dark faces now?
The love that kept the quiet hearth,
The strength that held the speeding plough?
Grasslands and lowing herds are good,
But better human flesh and blood!
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