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I GIVE MY HEART TO THEE, O MOTHERLAND, by                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: I give my heart to thee, ideal land!
Subject(s): Nationalism – Ireland


I GIVE my heart to thee, O mother-land,
I, if none else, recall the sacred womb.
I, if none else, behold the loving eyes
Bent ever on thy myriad progeny
Who care not nor regard thee as they go,
tender, sorrowing, weeping, hoping land !
I give my heart to thee, O mother-land.
I give my heart to thee, O father-land,
Fast-anchored on thy own eternal soul,
Rising with cloudy mountains to the skies.
proud, strong land, unstooping, stern of rule.
Me rule as ever; let me feel thy might ;
Let me go forth with thee now and for aye.
I give my heart to thee, O father-land.

I give my heart to thee, heroic land.
To thee or in thy morning when the Sun
Flashed on thy giant limbs - thy lurid noon -
Or in thy depth of night, fierce-thoughted one,
Wrestling with phantoms of thy own wild soul,
Or, stone-still, silent, waiting for the dawn,
I give my heart to thee, heroic land.
I give my heart to thee, ideal land,
Far-soaring sister of the starry throng,
fleet of wing what journeyings are thine,
What goal, what God attracts thee? What unseen
Glory reflected makes thy face a flame?
Leave me not, where thou goest, let me go.
I give my heart to thee, ideal land.





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