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TO HAROLD

Story ID:	1927
Written by:	Veronica Breen Hogle
Organization:	Irish Cultural Events
Story type:	In Memory
Writers Conference:	$500 2007 Family Memories Writing Project
Location:	Cardiff Wales
Year:	1938
Person:	Harold

This is poem number 6 from the collection of 21 poems written by the late Eileen (nee Earls) Breen

March 27, 1916 - May 5, 2006

TO HAROLD
(The just man shall be held in everlasting rememberance)

I picked my love a sweet bouquet
And cast it on the tide
And though my love lay far away
I thought him by my side

Beneath a peaked cap brown eyes smiled
I heard a Welsh voice say
"Oh, I'll return to you my lass"
And then he sailed away

But time and tide for none will bide
We met again - too late!
For he had picked another bride
And I another 'mate'

Now though he sleeps in death's last dream
And I am old and gray
I'll bless the day that we first met
Forever and for aye.

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