| Padraic Colum (1881–1972). Anthology of Irish Verse. 1922. |
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| 11. Had I a Golden Pound |
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| By Francis Ledwidge |
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| HAD I a golden pound to spend, | |
| My love should mend and sew no more. | |
| And I would buy her a little quern, | |
| Easy to turn on the kitchen floor. | |
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| And for her windows curtains white, | 5 |
| With birds in flight and flowers in bloom, | |
| To face with pride the road to town, | |
| And mellow down her sunlit room. | |
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| And with the silver change we’d prove | |
| The Truth of Love to life’s own end, | 10 |
| With hearts the years could but embolden, | |
| Had I a golden pound to spend. | |
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