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Poetry of Ireland  (Irish poets writing in English)

Posted by Gearóid Gearrfhocalach
on:    23 May 2000

The Stone of the Tourist
Patrick Kavanagh

The Complete Poems of Patrick Kavanagh
New York:  Kavanagh Hand Press, 1996

Yankee tourist
He could sure
Talk to deafen a mill-race.

From his watch-chain
Platinum set
Hung
A chip of the Blarney stone.

I accept
He had been suspended
Head downwards
Two men holding his heels.
He had put his snout
To the stone mentioned
So favourably by Father Prout.


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