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A Bog SongAuthor(s): Daniel ShieldsSource: The Irish Monthly, Vol. 33, No. 379 (Jan., 1905), p. 55Published by: Irish Jesuit ProvinceStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20500729 .

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A BOG SONG

THE bog-lands! the bog-lands! The home where I was born,

The little farm where ready hands

Were busy ere the morn ; The fleeting cloudy shadows

Across the waving meadows,

The breath of summer in the lanes or on the snowy thorn.

The bog-winds! the bog-winds!

The crooning winds of dawn That frolic down the yellow pools

And up the mountain bawn,

Where rushy marshes shimmer And dews of morning glimmer;

The winds are waking daisies there across the grassv lawn.

The bog-streams! the bog-streams! That dance beneath the moon

With rippled breast of sunny beams

And happy careless croon;

With a gush of silver laughter

They run in riot after

Or stealing o'er each gravelled bed, cool in the sunmmer noon.

The bog-lightss! the bog-lights !

They're glimmering through my dreams, And my lone nights are glad nights

With voices of the streams.

For where the winds go playing With meadow grasses swaying,

The fitful shadows come and go between the sunny gleamls.

DANIEL SHIELDS.

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