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First Line: Broad, blue, and deep, the bay of donegal
Last Line: The churlish thistles thrive, and the dull graveyard grass.
Subject(s): Kilbarron Castle, Ireland


BROAD, blue, and deep, the Bay of Donegal
Spreads north and south and far a-west before
The beetling cliffs sublime, and shattered wall
Where the O'Clery's name is known no more.
Kilbarron, many castle names are sung
In deathless verse they less deserved than thee, --
The Rhine-towers still endure in German tongue;
Gray Scotland's keeps in Scottish poesy;
In chronicles of Spain, and songs of France,
Full many a grim chateau and fortress stands;
And Albion's genius, strong as Uther's lance,
Guards her old mansions mid their altered lands;
Home of an hundred annalists, round thy hearths, alas!
The churlish thistles thrive, and the dull graveyard grass.





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