A Connaught Lament
Nora Hopper Chesson
1871 to 1906
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I will arise and go hence to the west,
______ dig me a grave where the hill-winds call;
But ______ were I dead, were I dust, the fall
Of ______ own love's footstep would break my rest!
My heart ______ my bosom is black as a sloe!
I heed ______ cuckoo, nor wren, nor swallow:
Like a flying leaf ______ the sky's blue hollow
The heart in my breast is, that beats so low.
Because of the words your ______ have spoken,
(O dear black head that I must ______ follow)
My heart is a grave that is stripped ______ hollow,
As ice on the water my heart is broken.
O lips forgetful and kindness fickle,
The swallow goes ______ with you: I go west
Where fields are empty ______ scythes at rest.
I am the poppy and you ______ sickle;
My heart is broken within my breast.