O Wise men, riddle me this: what if the dream come

true?

What if the dream come true, and if millions unborn shall dwell

In the house that I shaped in my heart, the noble

house of my thought?

Lord, I have staked my soul, I have stalked the lives of

my kin

On the truth of thy dreadful word. Do not remember

my failures

but remember this my faith.

-Pádraic Pearse, 1915

The 1916 Poets, edited by Desmond Ryan, Published by Gill and Macmillian Ltd., Dublin, 1995

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