Francis Ledwidge quotes
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“When the clouds shake their hyssops, and the rain Like holy water falls upon the plain, 'Tis sweet to gaze upon the springing grain And see your harvest born. And sweet the little breeze of melody The blackbord puffs upon the budding tree, While the wild poppy lights upon the lea And blazes 'mid the corn.”
-- Francis LedwidgeSource : Francis Ledwidge (1997). “The complete poems”, The Goldsmith Press Ltd
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“I joined the British Army because she stood between Ireland and an enemy common to our civilization, and I would not have her (Britain) say that she defended us while we did nothing at home but pass resolutions.”
-- Francis Ledwidge
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“I know too well the poison and the sting of things too sweet.”
Source : Adelaide Anne Procter (1862). “A Chaplet of Verses”, p.106
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“A woman must be a cute, cuddly, naive little thing - tender, sweet, and stupid.”
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Source : "The Green Fields of the Mind," Yale Alumni Magazine, Nov. 1977
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“I drink from a small spring, / my thirst excedes the ocean.”
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