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- ARE YOU CONTENT?
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- I CALL on those that call me son,
- Grandson, or great-grandson,
- On uncles, aunts, great-uncles or great-aunts,
- To judge what I have done.
- Have I, that put it into words,
- Spoilt what old loins have sent?
- Eyes spiritualised by death can judge,
- I cannot, but I am not content.
- He that in Sligo at Drumcliff
- Set up the old stone Cross,
- That red-headed rector in County Down,
- A good man on a horse,
- Sandymount Corbets, that notable man
- Old William pollexfen,
- The smuggler Middleton, Butlers far back,
- Half legendary men.
- Infirm and aged I might stay
- In some good company,
- I who have always hated work,
- Smiling at the sea,
- Or demonstrate in my own life
- What Robert Browning meant
- By an old hunter talking with Gods;
- But I am not content.
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