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“Children” by Patrick Kavanagh 🇮🇪 (21 Oct 1904 – 30 Nov 1967)
I heard them cheering wildly
The children and I thought
In the grey market-place of Fear
Some slave has been unbought
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Or some rich man has scattered
The world’s selfish grain
And Hunger nevermore need beg
The winnowings of gain
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Or maybe it was Beauty had
Lit lamps for every one
And made a million poets
Where before there had been none
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And the Father Son and Spirit
Had come down from Their high throne
And the knowledge of the Trinity
Was the gossip of the town.