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HANRAHAN LAMENTS BECAUSE OF HIS WANDERINGS by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

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First Line: O WHERE IS OUR MOTHER OF PEACE
Last Line: UNDER HER PURPLE HOOD.

O where is our Mother of Peace
Nodding her purple hood?
For the winds that awakened the stars
Are blowing through my blood.
I would that the death-pale deer
Had come through the mountain side,
And trampled the mountain away,
And drunk up the murmuring tide;
For the winds that awakened the stars
Are blowing through my blood,
And our Mother of Peace has forgot me
Under her purple hood.



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