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MARGARET BARRY

Submitted on 25 July, 2008 - 17:10
Ireland
Author: 
Sean Matgamna

MARGARET BARRY
A scrawny gaunt young tinker,
With thick black hair and too few teeth,
Street-singing through the fairs for pennies:
Bottom of Ireland's underneath.
But like the wild bird on the wing,
She could sing: how she could sing!


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