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Beresford Place (The Rocky Road To Dublin)

James Stephens 1882 (Dublin) – 1950

The man who has and does not give
Shall break his neck, and cease to live;
But he who gives without a care
Shall gather rubies from the air.
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Submitted on August 03, 2020

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Scheme ABCC
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 137
Words 29
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
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James Stephens

James Stephens was an Irish Republican and the founding member of an originally unnamed revolutionary organisation in Dublin on 17 March 1858, later to become known as the Irish Republican Brotherhood, also referred to as the Irish Revolutionary Brotherhood by contemporaries. more…

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