POETRY

For those of you who are my friends on good old facebook will know I have been on a strange poetry kick. Well, for one of my classes I have to study the famous Garden of Remebrance here in Dublin. In the garden is this beautiful Irish poem by Liam Mac Uistin. Hope you enjoy!

"We Saw A Vision"

In the darkness of despair we saw a vision,

We lit the light of hope and it was not extinguished.

In the desert of discouragement we saw a vision.

We planted the tree of valour and it blossomed.

In the winter of bondage we saw a vision.

We melted the snow of lethargy and the river of resurrection flowed from it.

We sent our vision aswim like a swan on the river. The vision became a reality.

Winter became summer. Bondage became freedom and this we left to you as your inheritance.

O generations of freedom remember us, the generations of the vision.