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Lough Crew
Don Hynes
The spreading sea and rolling hills are far away,
sweeping curves of river Boyne
beneath the ancient mounds of Knowth,
below the ruins of Rathfram, the ocean
breaking on the fertile coasts of Mayo;
kin to the wet grass and pungent cattle,
the curving roads and tiny villages,
I am oceans away yet I am not
for the land is with me,
not just the stone from a grave
but the life that flows within
the soaking fields and distant mountains
as I stand upon the crest of Lough Crew
belonging to this rich green earth,
rooted with her long forgiving people.
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