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BY FAUGHAN by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE

First Line: FOR HILLS AND WOODS AND STREAMS UNSUNG
Last Line: BETWEEN THE SILENCE AND THE WIND.
Subject(s): FLOWERS; PURPLE (COLOR); SEA; SHEEP; VIOLETS; WIND; OCEAN;
FOR hills and woods and streams unsung
I pipe above a rippled cove.
And here the weaver autumn hung
Between the hills a wind she wove
From sounds the hills remember yet
Of purple days and violet.

The hills stand up to trip the sky,
Sea-misted, and along the tops
Wing after wing goes summer by,
And many a little roadway stops
And starts, and struggles to the sea,
Cutting them up in filigree.

Twixt wind and silence Faughan flows,
In music broken over rocks,
Like mingled bells the poet knows
Ring in the fields of Eastern flocks.
And here this song for you I find
Between the silence and the wind.



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