A PIPER
by: Seamus O'Sullivan
- PIPER in
the streets today
- Set up, and tuned, and started to play,
- And away, away, away on the tide
- Of his music we started; on every side
- Doors and windows were opened wide,
- And men left down their work and came,
- And women with petticoats coloured like flame.
- And little bare feet that were blue with cold,
- Went dancing back to the age of gold,
- And all the world went gay, went gay,
- For half an hour in the street today.
'A Piper' is reprinted from An
Anthology of Modern Verse. Ed. A. Methuen. London: Methuen
& Co., 1921. |
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