Dec 2011
A simple curved stone bench
Set in a rustic niche.
Outside, this city bustles,
here, time passes by the inch.
There’s a fine array of roses
and stone tablets on the wall.
The inscription is in Irish,
It tells of a rise and fall.
As I sit, quiet, here
Near the bronze children of Lir
The reflecting pool brims full
of my races’ gathered tears.
Set in a rustic niche.
Outside, this city bustles,
here, time passes by the inch.
There’s a fine array of roses
and stone tablets on the wall.
The inscription is in Irish,
It tells of a rise and fall.
As I sit, quiet, here
Near the bronze children of Lir
The reflecting pool brims full
of my races’ gathered tears.
In Dublin,Ireland , there is a park at the foot of O'Connell Street near Parnel square dedicated to the men and women of the Easter rising of 1916. The bronze statute " the Children of Lir" commemorates the martyrs in the cause of Irish independence. I have written of that time in my poem "The Easter Rising". Yeats visited the topic more successfully in "Easter, 1916". Of course he was there and he knew them personally.
