Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Ireland: Vol. V. 1876–79. | | | | Donegal | | To the Castle of Donegal | | William Allingham (1824–1889) |
| | | CASTLE of Donegal! both green and gray, | |
| Like an old poet; where thine outworks lay | |
| A sessions-house, and barracks for police | |
| Lie in thy shadow. If from ivied peace | |
| We could recall thee, and revive to-day | 5 |
| The men whom thy crazed walls, their children, cease | |
| Almost to recollect, how we and they | |
| Would wonder! How their wonder would increase | |
| When by their antique customs they were driven | |
| (As soon would happen to those chiefs of yore) | 10 |
| To feel our unromantic forms of power, | |
| Police and statute law. Therefore, still riven | |
| And roofless be thou; strength is law no more; | |
| The times that suited thee are gone, thank Heaven! | | | | |
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