Jeremiah Joseph Callanan was a great Irish poet
In Lisbon in Portugal on his life's thirty third year of poetry he wrote his last line
On the nineteenth of September eighteen twenty nine
Very ill homesick and alone in Sao Jose Hospital in Lisbon he died
Far from his home in Cork in the green countryside
Though nowadays no trace of his grave in Lisbon remain
With the passing of time his wonderful poems for him new fans does gain
The Recluse Of Inchydoney, The Outlaw Of Loch Lene and the Convict Of Clonmel
By lovers of poetry are poems that are known well
By Jeremiah Joseph Callanan the poet who died in his poetic prime
His poems living on through the centuries of time
Due to his poor health he went to Portugal for health mending sunshine
But he died a young man there in eighteen twenty nine
Reading his poems bring enjoyment to many today
He was a true poet of him one can say.
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