Let me Sing of What I Know
A wild west Coast, a little Town,
Where little Folk go up and down,
Tides flow and winds blow:
Night and Tempest and the Sea,
Human Will and Human Fate:
What is little, what is great?
Howsoe'er the answer be,
Let me sing of what I know.
~~
William Allingham (1824-1889)
from Sixteen Poems of William Allingham, 1905.
[Poem is in the public domain worldwide]
William Allingham biography
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