Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Ireland: Vol. V. 1876–79. | | | | Smerwick | | Song | | Aubrey Thomas de Vere (1814–1902) |
| | | HIS war-horse beats a distant bourne | |
| Till comes the glad new year; | |
| Therefore thy wheel in silence turn, | |
| And only dream him near. | |
| He fights where native monarchs be, | 5 |
| Where Moors no longer reign: | |
| He strikes and cries, “My land, for thee!” | |
| Amid delivered Spain. | |
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| O maiden of the moon-pale face | |
| And darkly lucid eye! | 10 |
| For knights wave-washed round Smerwick’s base | |
| Fair Spanish maidens sigh! | |
| The moss, till comes the glad new year, | |
| Alone may clothe the bough; | |
| Alone the raindrop deck the breer,— | 15 |
| It weeps, and so must thou! | | | | |
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