Page:The Complete Poems of Francis Ledwidge, 1919.djvu/94

88 Two blue love lamps, a heart exceeding good,

And how, when first I heard that voice ring clear

Among the sering hedges of the plain,

I knew not which from which beyond the corn,

The laughter by the callow twisted thorn,

The jay-thrush whistling in the haws for rain.

I hold the mind is the imprisoned soul,

And all our aspirations are its own

Struggles and strivings for a golden goal,

That wear us out like snow men at the thaw.

And we shall make our Heaven where we have sown

Our purple longings. Oh! can the loved dead draw

Anear us when we moan, or watching wait