<> Unpublished Poems Greacen Estate 19 Jan Linen Hall Library Wednesday, March 16, 2016 TIFF Greacen012 Manuscript A memory of Bantry Bay English https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacen012 Linen Hall Library Linen Hall Library Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Greacen012_0.jpg LHL Archive A Memory of Bantry Bay Eveninig stands still as if at the stiff command Of ancient gods that straddle the ink-blue hills; The sea lies smooth, her lace-white band of foam Forgotten, storm-past, peace-breathing From fall of sandy cliff to curved horizon. Summer walks the hedgerows like a gipsy queen Flaunting and flinging far her red ear-rings of fuchsia. On such an evening life is time-free, no longer perilous, And our coming sleep a sweet rehearsal for death. Text