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Magpie

He was a nawie, she a serving-maid

one yeoman and three immigrants

the other side were tanners, publicans

teachers, priests, and teaching-nuns

and liked a drop, and liked to joke and sing

one side close-mouthed and shy, the other fey

Ireland is small, home-villages touched, and touching

Oxford's broad-shouldered, clerical and rural

I might have come from anywhere at all

This is my bounty

This is my county, Waterford then Cornwall

Here is my peninsular, my afterthought

I ...

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