367:, where Byrne concludes with the following poem: The bells of heather/ Have ceased ringing their Angelus./ Sleepy June weather/ Has instilled a drug in us.// The cry of the plover/ Is hushed, and the friendly dark/ Has drawn a blue hood over/ The meadow lark.// We travel sleeping,/ Over heather hill and through ferny dale,/ To the Land of No Weeping,/ Of races, and piping and ale.// Hushenn! Hushoo!// The wind is hid in the mountain. The leaves/ are still on the tree./ The hawk is caged in the darkness. The field-/ mouse safe in the hay./ Now I am in my sleeping, and don't waken me./ Tha mee mo hulloo is na dhooshy may!/ Tha mee, Tha mee--/ Golden mammy!/ Tha mee mo hulloo is na dhooshy may!/ I am in my sleeping and don't waken me!// Quoted from the National Geographic version. (Vol. 51, no. 3, March 1927, page 316).
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Doherty, John J. (1997). "Donn Byrne: An
Annotated Bibliography." Bulletin of Bibliography. 54(2): 101–105.
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Annotated Bibliography." Bulletin of Bibliography. 54(2): 101–105.
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Wetherbee, Winthrop Jr. (1949). Donn Byrne: A Bibliography. New York: The New York Public
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Bibliography, 1912–1935. New York: Garland.
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