This Poem was Submitted By: John R. Birkbeck On Date: 2001-05-22 17:01:20 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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The Emigrant

Wan and brigid she sate b'the sea wall green eyes asquant  ower dark watters  and roarin foames  obscairt laights and feign't bells thricklin afther the playful splasheens o'merrymaids so gay a-follyin afther the wakes o'monny a grand streemer ploughen stolickly thraught grey mountins o'watters and waives. She sighs, O of lackin backwarth to jolly owld times o'more laffrin and gargoylin at hearthside cracklin marryward be-warmed at the flaimes her enchantrin long tresses in the dim twankle and glitters o'candles' laight. Aye, she stonds lorne heere remiss wid a dibble or two at the corner o'dampend eye thryin to penetraight mysteriad night dreems beheld yond whirlins and sweepins o'mist at quayside. Tiz whoam she dreemt of then far ower dyark watter and all the might-have-beens that might have thrivven her mad but instead had throve her to netherside o'the sea.

Copyright © May 2001 John R. Birkbeck

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