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Thread #39733 Message #3748210
Posted By: Thompson
02-Nov-15 - 07:13 PM
Thread Name: Help: Who wrote 'Grace'?
Subject: RE: Help: Who wrote 'Grace'?
Point of information: 4 May 1916, not 2 May.
Plunkett wrote many poems to Grace. Here's one:
TO GRACE
On the Morning of her Christening, April 7th, 1916
The powerful words that from my heart Alive and throbbing leap and sing Shall bind the dragon's jaws apart Or bring you back a vanished spring ; They shall unseal and seal again The fount of wisdom's awful flow, So this one guerdon they shall gain That your wild beauty still they show.
The joy of Spring leaps from your eyes, The strength of dragons in your hair. In your young soul we still surprise The secret wisdom flowing there ; But never word shall speak or sing Inadequate music where above Your burning heart now spreads its wing In the wild beauty of your Love.