Drum-Taps

whereangelsfear:

Your flag is public over granite, Gulls fly above it.

Whatever the issue of the battle is, your memory

Is public, for them to pull awry with crooked hands,

Moist eyes. And village reputations will be built on

Inaccurate accounts of your campaign. Your name

    For orators,

Figure stone-struck beneath damp Dublin sky.

Charlie Donnelly, Irish poet, killed at the battle of Jarama 27/2/1937 aged 22