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- TOM O'ROUGHLEY
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- "THOUGH logic-choppers rule the town,
- And every man and maid and boy
- Has marked a distant object down,
- An aimless joy is a pure joy,'
- Or so did Tom O'Roughley say
- That saw the surges running by.
- "And wisdom is a butterfly
- And not a gloomy bird of prey.
- "If little planned is little sinned
- But little need the grave distress.
- What's dying but a second wind?
- How but in zig-zag wantonness
- Could trumpeter Michael be so brave?'
- Or something of that sort he said,
- "And if my dearest friend were dead
- I'd dance a measure on his grave.'
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