I Hear an Army
James Joyce
1882 to 1941
Track 1
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My love, my love, my love, why have you left me alone?
Clanging, clanging upon the heart as upon an anvil.
I moan in sleep when I hear afar their whirling laughter.
They cleave the gloom of dreams, a blinding flame,
Disdaining the reins, with fluttering whips, the charioteers.
They come shaking in triumph their long, green hair:
And the thunder of horses plunging, foam about their knees:
Arrogant, in black armour, behind them stand,
My heart, have you no wisdom thus to despair?
They come out of the sea and run shouting by the shore.
They cry unto the night their battle-name:
I hear an army charging upon the land,
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