Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, WILD GEESE (1740), by HENRY LONGAN STUART


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First Line: There's a cloud across the moon
Last Line: Mine to me.
Subject(s): Geese


There's a cloud across the moon,
And a boat that rocks below,
And it's "Come!" the breakers croon
"While the tide is at the flow."
Oh! the keening and the crying,
When the Wild Geese would be flying,
From a land that, sore and sighing,
Lets them go.

There's a regiment in France
That they call the "Irlandaise,"
But it's oh! the weary dance
That their fife and bugle plays.
And it's oh! the heavy measure,
And the piping without pleasure,
If the heart that was your treasure
Bleeds and pays.

There's a shadow on my heart
Like the shadow on the sea:
But the sooner, love, we part,
Sure the sooner back you'll be.
Oh! the dancing and the singing,
When the Wild Geese west come winging,
Bringing home their king, and bringing
Mine to me.





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