Lament Of The Scotch-Irish Exile
James Jeffrey Roche 1847 (Ireland) – 1908
Oh, I want to win me hame
To my ain countrie,
The land frae whence I came
Far away across the sea;
Bit I canna find it there, on the atlas anywhere,
And I greet and wonder sair
Where the deil it can be?
I hae never met a man,
In a' the warld wide,
Who has trod my native lan'
Or its distant shores espied;
But they tell me there's a place where my hypothetic race
Its dim origin can trace,
Tipperary-on-the-Clyde.
But anither answers: "Nae,
Ye are varra far frae richt;
Glasgow town in Dublin Bay
Is the spot we saw the licht."
But I dinna find the maps bearing out these pawkie chaps,
And I sometimes think perhaps
It has vanished out o' sight.
Oh, I fain wad win me hame
To that undiscovered lan'
That has neither place nor name
Where the Scoto-Irishman
May behold the castles fair by his fathers builded there
Many, many ages ere
Ancient history began.
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | ABACBBC DEDEFFE DEXXGGX ADAXBBD |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 838 |
Words | 169 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 7, 7, 7 |
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