"Men that had seen her Drank deep and were silent, The women were speaking Wherever she went, As a bell that is rung Or a wonder told shyly, And O she was the Sunday In every week."
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Austin Clarke, "The Planter’s Daughter", st. 2, in The Dublin Magazine, vol. 3, no. 5 (July–September 1928), p. 2
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