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The Harper of the Only God: A Selection of Poems by Alice Milligan [Paperback]

Alice L. Milligan (Author), Sheila Turner Johnston (Editor)

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This personal selection of Alice Milligan's works, which is the first collection to be published since the volume produced after her death in 1953, demonstrates her understanding of family and friendship, of solitude and love, as well as the worn images of power and patriotism.

About the Author

Sheila Turner Johnston is one of the partners in Colourpoint. In the early part of her career she was a librarian and is now a full time writer and publisher. She became interested in Alice Milligan when she lived in Omagh, where Alice Milligan was born, and ultimately spent her last years.

Excerpted from Harper of the Only God by Alice Milligan. Copyright © 1993. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved

Extract from the poem "Till Ferdia Came":

Oh brothers! Sons of one loved land,

Who to such combat armed each hand,

What cause of fury and of hate

Had either? By what mocking fate

Are ye, begirt with scornful foes,

Now locked in self-destructive throes,

Whilst they, in calm complacence jeering,

Wait our annihilation nearing;

Wishful that after all your toils,

Of Victory they will reap the spoils.

They tell us in that noble tale,

The glory of the Northern Gael,

When weary of the watch he'd kept

And wounded sore, Cuchulain slept;

The youth of Erin glad, untired,

With hearts untamed, with hopes inspired,

Rose up against the invading foe.

As it was then it may be so

In these sad days of blood and tears.

Have faith - trust God for happier years,

For strength upheld, for peace restored

'Twixt those who battle at the ford.

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