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

  • 24-11-2004 9:32pm
    #1
    simu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,730 ✭✭✭✭


    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.


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  • #2
    BuffyBot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,924 ✭✭✭✭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!


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