Louis Untermeyer, ed. (1885–1977). Modern British Poetry. 1920.
Joseph Campbell (Seosamh MacCathmhaoil)1879–1944I Am the Mountainy Singer
I
The voice of the peasant’s dream,
The cry of the wind on the wooded hill,
The leap of the fish in the stream.
The carn on the mountain crest,
The cailin in her lover’s arms,
The child at its mother’s breast.
The fire on the open hearth,
The cailleach spinning at her wheel,
The plough in the broken earth.
The bride on the childing bed,
The dark man laboring at his rhymes,
The eye in the lambing shed.
The canker come on the corn,
The fisher lost in the mountain loch,
The cry at the mouth of morn.
For I am sprung of the stock
That broke the hilly land for bread,
And built the nest in the rock!