At The End

from Onward by Patsy O'Brien

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The closing song on "Onward" is a poem by Thomasc McDonagh, that I set to music. He was an Irish political activist, poet, playwright, educationalist and revolutionary leader. He was one of the seven leaders of the Easter Rising of 1916. The poem in question is called At the End, a poem celebrating the coming of Spring. My only amendment to the poem was to repeat the stanzas for the sake of the song structure.
All the words are his. I hope you like it.

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The songs that I sing
Should have told you an Easter story
Of a long sweet Spring
With its gold and its feasts and its glory.

Of the moons then that married
Green May to the mellow September,
Long noons that ne'er tarried
Life's hail and farewell to remember--

But the haste of the years
Had rushed to the fall of our sorrow,
To the waste of our tears,
The hush and the pall of our morrow.

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from Onward, released September 22, 2022
Patsy O'Brien
Vocals
Guitar
AJ Srubas
Fiddle
David Tousley
Bass

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