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OWEN AHERN
It feared the hurt that she could give and therefore it went mad.
I can exchange opinion with any neighbouring mind,
I have as healthy flesh and blood as any rhymer's had,
But oh my Heart could bear no more when the upland caught the wind;
I ran, I ran, from my love's side because my Heart went mad.
I have as healthy flesh and blood as any rhymer's had,
But oh my Heart could bear no more when the upland caught the wind;
I ran, I ran, from my love's side because my Heart went mad.
II
The Heart behind its rib laughed out, 'You have called me mad,' it said.
'Because I made you turn away and run from that young child;
How could she mate with fifty years that was so wildly bred?
Let the cage bird and the cage bird mate and the wild bird mate in the wild.'
The Heart behind its rib laughed out, 'You have called me mad,' it said.
'Because I made you turn away and run from that young child;
How could she mate with fifty years that was so wildly bred?
Let the cage bird and the cage bird mate and the wild bird mate in the wild.'
