The Nightingale

The fire’s not out, the flame is blue to some,
And in the heart’s deep centre burns her grace.
With golden voice and a sweet song she’d come,
And sing some solace to this weary place.

About Gerald Griffin

Gerald Griffin was an Irish-born novelist, poet and playwright. His novel The Collegians was the basis of Dion Boucicault's play The Colleen Bawn. Feeling he was "wasting his time" writing fiction, he joined the Christian Brothers, a Catholic religious congregation founded by Edmund Ignatius Rice to teach the children of the poor.

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