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Padraic Colum - The Tin-Whistle Player
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`Tis long since, long since, since I heard
A tin-whistle played,
And heard the tunes, the ha`penny tunes
That nobody made!

The tunes that were before Cendfind
And Cir went Ireland`s rounds
That were before the surety
That strings have given sounds!

And now is standing in the mist,
And jigging backward there,
Shrilling with fingers and with breath,
A tin-whistle player!

He has hare`s eyes, a long face rimmed
Around with badger-grey;
Aimless, like cries of mountain birds
The tunes he has to play

The tunes that are for stretches bare,
And men whose lives are lone
And I had seen that face of his
Sculptured on cross of stone,
That long face, in a place of graves
With nettles overgrown.
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