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PATRICK HENRY PEARSE
(1879 - 1916)
WRITER - IRISH PATRIOT
50th
Anniversary of Easter Uprising.
First
Day Pictorial Cancellation
Tortured
by his homosexual desires and devoutly Roman Catholic, Patrick Pearse
wrote:
Why
are ye torturing me, O desires of my heart?
Torturing
me and paining me by day and by night?
Hunting
me as a poor deer would be hunted on a hill,
...
There's not ease to my paining in the loneliness of the hills ..
...
No satisfying can come to my desires while I live ...
...
And forever I shall not sleep till I sleep in the grave.
Patrick
Pearse chose death. As leader of the 'Easter Rebellion' against British rule,
Pearse
was captured, court-martialed and condemned to die by the firing squad.
Copyright Louis Paul Hennefeld 1983
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