Page:The Complete Poems of Francis Ledwidge, 1919.djvu/140

This page has been proofread, but needs to be validated.
134
AFTER MY LAST SONG

Oh paining eyes, but not with salty weeping,
My heart is like a sod in winter rain;
Ere you will see those baying waters leaping
Like hungry hounds once more, how many a pain
Shall heal; but when my last short song is trolled
You'll sleep here on wan cheeks grown thin and old.