[PW] They have no hands...

[Franco, Adrienne]

Actually, I don't think the author of the poem is Austin Clarke.  It's
just that the lines of the poem are included in a book by Austin Clarke,
Poetry in Modern Ireland (1951) on page 38.  I believe the author of the
poem is Joseph Campbell and it appears the title is Raven's Rock.  

I just got the book off the shelf (Poetry in Modern Ireland by Austin
Clarke, which we have here in our library).  Here is excerpt from page
39.

"The execution of Pearse, MacDonagh and Plunkett by the British military
had a profound effect on our other poets and stirred in some of them
that impassioned eloquence which had been avoided for so long.  Yeats,
in two poems which have become famous, A.E., Lady Gregory, Seumas
O'Sullivan, Padraic Colum, James Stephens, Joseph Campbell, were among
those who protested.  Joseph Campbell's Raven's Rock, is an historical
Aisling, or vision of revolt throughout the ages ending with the fate of
Roger Casement.

I go to the rope and the quicklime,
They have no hands that would deliver me --
O, Christ of Nazareth, no hands !"

Adrienne Franco / Iona College

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Yes! Yes! It's the Roger Casement one. So it's by Austin Clarke. 
Thank you so much, Adrienne Franco (and also Jeanne Schramme and 
swguardian for checking for me).
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