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THE BALLAD OF FATHER OHART

THE BALLAD OF FATHER OHART
William Butler Yeats poem lyrics. Easy summary meaning. Selected sweat best popular poem for School and college student

GOOD Father John O'Hart

 

In penal days rode out

 

To a Shoneen who had free lands

 

And his own snipe and trout.

 

In trust took he John's lands;

 

Sleiveens were all his race;

 

And he gave them as dowers to his daughters.

 

And they married beyond their place.

 

But Father John went up,

 

And Father John went down;

 

And he wore small holes in his Shoes,

 

And he wore large holes in his gown.

 

All loved him, only the shoneen,

 

Whom the devils have by the hair,

 

From the wives, and the cats, and the children,

 

To the birds in the white of the air.

 

The birds, for he opened their cages

 

As he went up and down;

 

And he said with a smile, 'Have peace now';

 

And he went his way with a frown.

 

But if when anyone died

 

Came keeners hoarser than rooks,

 

He bade them give over their keening;

And these were the works of John,

 

When, weeping score by score,

 

People came into Colooney;

 

For he'd died at ninety-four.

 

There was no human keening;

 

The birds from Knocknarea

 

And the world round Knocknashee

 

Came keening in that day.

 

The young birds and old birds

 

Came flying, heavy and sad;

 

Keening in from Tiraragh,

 

Keening from Ballinafad;

 

Keening from Inishmurray.

 

Nor stayed for bite or sup;

 

This way were all reproved

 

Who dig old customs up.

 

 

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