Two places only<\/p>\n
there were:<\/p>\n
here and America.<\/p>\n
The four corners of the farm,<\/p>\n
and gone-beyond-the-sea.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
With a twopenny nail<\/p>\n
he etched into the iron<\/p>\n
shank of his spade<\/p>\n
the word ‘Destiny’,<\/p>\n
drove it with his boot smartly into the turf<\/p>\n
and left it standing.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Abroad commenced<\/p>\n
at the town line.<\/p>\n
The New World blinded him<\/p>\n
on the Navan road<\/p>\n
and again the first time he tried to speak English<\/p>\n
and again the first time he saw an orange.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Anaesthetized by reels and barrels of porter<\/p>\n
and eight renditions of ‘The Parting Glass’,<\/p>\n
he fell asleep to the groan of oars<\/p>\n
and awoke to a diesel thrust<\/p>\n
and sleet over mountainous seas.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
–Richard Tillinghast<\/p>\n
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