John Boyle O'Reilly

28 June 1844 - 10 August 1890 / Dowth Castle, County Meath

A Dissapointment

HER hair was a waving bronze, and her eyes
Deep wells that might cover a brooding soul;
And who, till he weighed it, could ever surmise
That her heart was a cinder instead of a coal!
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