Poor Mangan he lived and died in extreme poverty
In eighteen forty nine of malnutrition and consumption as we have been told
On his forty sixth year this is far from old
In death one who did achieve great literary note
Many claim James Clarence Mangan to be Ireland's greatest ever poet
Though in his lifetime outside of Ireland not well known
As a writer he was in a class of his own
His name will live in Ireland as long as fields are green
The poet who gave to his Country Dark Rosaleen
And A Vision Of Connaught, The Woman Of Three Cows and O Husseys Ode To Maguire
Are poems that generations of young Irish poets inspire
Ireland's greatest writer many of him do say
In eighteen forty nine from life he passed away.
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