... died? I write it out in a verse — MacDonagh and MacBride And Connolly and pearse Now and in time to be, Wherever green is worn, Are changed, changed ... ...still the land Till Germany’s overcome; But who is there to argue that Now Pearse is deaf and dumb? And is their logic to outweigh MacDonagh’s bony th... ...at converse bone to bone? THE ROSE TREE ‘O WORDS are lightly spoken,’ Said Pearse to Connolly, ‘Maybe a breath of politic words Has withered our Rose ... ...rom the bud To be the garden’s pride.’ ‘But where can we draw water,’ Said Pearse to Connolly, ‘When all the wells are parched away? O plain as plain ... ...goes the weather? Sing of the O’Rahilly That had such little sense He told Pearse and Connolly He’d gone to great expense Keeping all the Kerry men Ou... ...at some travelling man Had heard I had not heard?’ LAST POEMS 323 Then on pearse and Connolly He fixed a bitter look: ‘Because I helped to wind the cl... ... heart mount up on high; And yet who knows what’s yet to come? For patrick pearse had said That in every generation Must Ireland’s blood be shed. From... ...nch declare the hour to bless Grimalkin crawls to Buddha’s emptiness. When Pearse summoned Cuchulain to his side. What stalked through the post Office?...