To The Oaks Of Glencree

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MY arms are round you, and I lean  
Against you, while the lark  
Sings over us, and golden lights, and green  
Shadows are on your bark.  

There'll come a season when you'll stretch  
Black boards to cover me;  
Then in Mount Jerome I will lie, poor wretch,  
With worms eternally.

© John Millington Synge