"The Planter's Daughter" by Austin Clarke in an ad...

simu

This poem, which used to be on the Leaving Cert course, is now on an ad for something or other.

Isn't it nice to see an ad that doesn't descend to idiocy, for once? (even though some residual prejudice tells me she couldn't have been all that if she was a planter)

Here's the poem for those unfamiliar with it:

The Planter's Daughter

When night stirred at sea
And the fire brought a crowd in,
They say that her beauty
Was music in mouth
And few in the candlelight
Thought her too proud,
For the house of the planter
Is known by the trees.

Men that had seen her
Drank deep and were silent,
The women were speaking
Wherever she went -
As a bell that is rung
Or a wonder told shyly,
And O she was the Sunday
In every week.

BuffyBot

Yup - think it's an ad for Bord na Mona. I thought it was very well done - and god, how I remember that poem!