@3"Wild geese are very numerous in this district, especially around Lough Esknahinny." — Cork Examiner, December@1 12, 1916. I WALKED by Esknahinny at the waning of the moon, As star by star came peeping to some celestial tune. The little waves crept to me to call and fall away, O lone I was and lonesome to meet the breaking day. I heard wind voices whisper and leaned to hear them speak; I saw the moving shadows — and feared to turn and seek. The slender reeds were shaking between me and the light, And loneliness fell from me with the treasure of the night. I heard dark wings flap by me towards the rising sun, Dear birds so swift in passing I blessed them every one. The wild geese had come back again, they passed me in the night. Between me and the waning moon I watched them in their flight. I had walked the paths of Kerry and dared not say the word; I had trod the roads of Leinster all broken by the sword. O Ulster, Munster, Connacht, He gave Who can restore, The Wild Geese, the Wild Geese, they have come home once more. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE LOVE POEM by KAREN SWENSON ELEGY: 18. LOVES PROGRESS by JOHN DONNE SYMPATHY (2) by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR THE BATTLE AUTUMN OF 1862 by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER ODES: BOOK 1: ODE 14. TO THE HON. CHARLES TOWNSHEND - FROM THE COUNTRY by MARK AKENSIDE IMAGES: 1 by RICHARD ALDINGTON NAMELESS PAIN by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH TO THE IMMORTAL MEMORY MEMORY OF THE FAIREST AND MOST VIRTUOUS LADY by WILLIAM BOSWORTH |