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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE GOLDEN TONGUE OF IRELAND, by DOROTHEA FRANCES (CANFIELD) FISHER
First Line: Tongue of spice and salt and wine and honey
Last Line: Calling doom on chieftains dying. . . .
Alternate Author Name(s): Canfield, Dorothy
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish
First Line: Tongue of spice and salt and wine and honey
Last Line: Calling doom on chieftains dying. . . .
Alternate Author Name(s): Canfield, Dorothy
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish
Tongue of spice and salt and wine and honey,
Magic, mystic, sweet, intemperate tongue!
Flower of lavish love and lyric fury,
Mixed on lips forever rash and young,
Wildly droll and quaintly tender; --
Hark, the hidden melodies of Elfland
In the under, in the over tone;
Clear faint wailing of the far-heard banshee,
Out of lands where never the sun shone,
Calling doom on chieftains dying. . . .
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