All Videos Tagged Pearse (The Wild Geese) - The Wild Geese2024-05-03T07:17:53Zhttps://thewildgeese.irish/video/video/listTagged?tag=Pearse&rss=yes&xn_auth=noThe Rebel by P.H. Pearsetag:thewildgeese.irish,2014-12-16:6442157:Video:1331442014-12-16T18:20:56.438ZJoe Gannonhttps://thewildgeese.irish/profile/JoeGannon
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</a> <br></br>I am come of the seed of the people, the people that sorrow,<br></br>
That have no treasure but hope,<br></br>
No riches laid up but a memory<br></br>
Of an ancient glory.<br></br>
My mother bore me in bondage, in bondage my mother was born,<br></br>
I am of the blood of serfs;<br></br>
The children with whom I have played, the men and women with whom I have eaten,<br></br>
Have had masters over them, haveā¦
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</a><br />I am come of the seed of the people, the people that sorrow,<br />
That have no treasure but hope,<br />
No riches laid up but a memory<br />
Of an ancient glory.<br />
My mother bore me in bondage, in bondage my mother was born,<br />
I am of the blood of serfs;<br />
The children with whom I have played, the men and women with whom I have eaten,<br />
Have had masters over them, have been under the lash of masters,<br />
And, though gentle, have served churls;<br />
The hands that have touched mine, the dear hands whose touch is familiar to me,<br />
Have worn shameful manacles, have been bitten at the wrist by manacles,<br />
Have grown hard with the manacles and the task-work of strangers,<br />
I am flesh of the flesh of these lowly, I am bone of their bone,<br />
I that have never submitted;<br />
I that have a soul greater than the souls of my people's masters,<br />
I that have vision and prophecy and the gift of fiery speech,<br />
I that have spoken with God on top of his holy hill.<br />
And because I am of the people, I understand the people,<br />
I am sorrowful with their sorrow, I am hungry with their desire;<br />
My heart has been heavy with the grief of mothers,<br />
My eyes have been wet with the tears of children,<br />
I have yearned with old wistful men,<br />
And laughed or cursed with young men;<br />
Their shame is my shame, and I have reddened for it,<br />
Reddened for that they have served, they who should be free,<br />
Reddened for that they have gone in want, while others have been full,<br />
Reddened for that they have walked in fear of lawyers and of their jailors<br />
With their writs of summons and their handcuffs,<br />
Men mean and cruel!<br />
I could have borne stripes on my body rather than this shame of my people.<br />
And now I speak, being full of vision;<br />
I speak to my people, and I speak in my people's name to the masters of my people.<br />
I say to my people that they are holy, that they are august, despite their chains,<br />
That they are greater than those that hold them, and stronger and purer,<br />
That they have but need of courage, and to call on the name of their God,<br />
God the unforgetting,the dear God that loves the peoples<br />
For whom He died naked, suffering shame.<br />
And I say to my people's masters:Beware,<br />
Beware of the thing that is coming, beware of the risen people,<br />
Who shall take what ye would not give.<br />
Did ye think to conquer the people,<br />
Or that Law is stronger than life and men's desire to be free?<br />
We will try it out with you,ye that have harried and held,<br />
Ye that have bullied and bribed,tyrants,hypocrites,liars!