Jessie Mackay World Poems
- 1. The Grey Company
O the grey, grey company
Of the pallid dawn!
O the ghostly faces,
Ashen-like and drawn!
... - 2. Song Of The Driftweed
HEREĆ¢??S to the home that was never, never ours!
Toast it full and fairly when the winter lowers.
Speak ye low, my merry men, sitting at your ease;
Harken to the homeless Drift in the roaring seas!
... - 3. The Burial Of Sir John Mackenzie
(1901)
They played him home to the House of Stones
All the way, all the way,
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