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Aug 6, 2021 · “The Fool” is one of Padraig Pearse’s most famous poems– arguably even his most famous. Padraig wrote this poem upon the death of his friend and Irish Republican Brotherhood member Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa.
The Fool by Patrick Pearse. Patrick Pearse was the most prominent leader of the 1916 Rising, a central figure in the Gaelic revival, and a very estimable poet. At least, in my view he is a very estimable poet. He has the distinction of being the only free verse poet whose poetry I like.
- Maolsheachlann
The Fool. Since the wise men have not spoken, I speak that am only a fool; A fool that hath loved his folly, Yea, more than the wise men their books or their counting houses or their quiet homes, Or their fame in men's mouths;
The Fool. by Patrick Henry Pearse. Since the wise men have not spoken, I speak that am only a fool; A fool that hath loved his folly, Yea, more than the wise men their books or their counting houses or their quiet homes, Or their fame in men's mouths;
The fruit of his mighty sowing, content to scatter the seed; A fool that is unrepentant, and that soon at the end of all. Shall laugh in his lonely heart as the ripe ears fall to the reaping-hooks. And the poor are filled that were empty, Tho’ he go hungry.
The work, Ómós don Phiarsach / Homage to Padraic Pearse, combines settings for solo voice and orchestra of five of Pearse’s lyrical poems with passages from his polemical prose writings set for narrator and orchestra. ‘The Fool’, a setting of Pearse’s poem for medium voice and piano, was composed in the same year.
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Patrick Henry Pearse (also known as Pádraig or Pádraic Pearse; Irish: Pádraig Anraí Mac Piarais; 10 November 1879 – 3 May 1916) was an Irish teacher, barrister, poet, writer, nationalist, republican political activist and revolutionary who was one of the leaders of the Easter Rising in 1916.
