Saddle and ride, I heard a man say, <br />Out of Ben Bulben and Knocknarea, <br />What says the Clock in the Great Clock Tower? <br />All those tragic characters ride <br />But turn from Rosses' crawling tide, <br />The meet's upon the mountain-side. <br />A slow low note and an iron bell. <br /> <br />What brought them there so far from their home. <br />Cuchulain that fought night long with the foam, <br />What says the Clock in the Great Clock Tower? <br />Niamh that rode on it; lad and lass <br />That sat so still and played at the chess? <br />What but heroic wantonness? <br />A slow low note and an iron bell. <br /> <br />Aleel, his Countess; Hanrahan <br />That seemed but a wild wenching man; <br />What says the Clock in the Great Clock Tower? <br />And all alone comes riding there <br />The King that could make his people stare, <br />Because he had feathers instead of hair. <br />A slow low note and an iron bell. <br /> <br /> Tune by Arthur Duff <br /><br />William Butler Yeats<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/alternative-song-for-the-severed-head-in-the-kin/
