Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Ireland: Vol. V. 1876–79. | | | | Kilbarron Castle | | To Kilbarron Castle | | Thomas D’Arcy McGee (1825–1868) |
| | | BROAD, blue, and deep, the Bay of Donegal | |
| Spreads north and south and far a-west before | |
| The beetling cliffs sublime, and shattered wall | |
| Where the O’Clery’s name is known no more. | |
| Kilbarron, many castle names are sung | 5 |
| In deathless verse they less deserved than thee,— | |
| The Rhine-towers still endure in German tongue; | |
| Gray Scotland’s keeps in Scottish poesy; | |
| In chronicles of Spain, and songs of France, | |
| Full many a grim château and fortress stands; | 10 |
| And Albion’s genius, strong as Uther’s lance, | |
| Guards her old mansions mid their altered lands; | |
| Home of an hundred annalists, round thy hearths, alas! | |
| The churlish thistles thrive, and the dull graveyard grass. | | | | |
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