Can Anyone tell me where I can find the full version of this poem by Patrick Galvin.?

Question

I came across part of this poem, in "Song For A Raggy Boy" by Patrick Galvin.

All I know of it are these few lines.

I will not yield
I will not fall
I will eat dynamite
and one day I will explode like a volcano.

I would really like to know the full poem, so if you know it, or where i can find it let me know, i have searched Wikapedia and other sites about galvin to no avail.

Answer 1

consider The dispossessed:
http://www.soundeye.org/patrickgalvin/index.htm
http://www.writerscentre.ie/centre/anthology/galvin.html

Explore his poetry publications also:

Heart of Grace (Linden Press, London, 1959)
Christ in London (Linden Press, London, 1960)
The Wood Burners (New Writers' Press, Dublin, 1973)
Man on the Porch: Selected Poems (Martin Brian & O'Keefe, London, 1979)
Folk Tales for the General (Raven Arts, Dublin, 1989)
More sites below.

good luck
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Answer 2

I found a home page for Patrick Galvin that might lead you further toward your answer.

www.soundeye.org/patrickgalvin

I found the site by searching for "Patrick Galvin" using the "I'm Feeling Lucky" mode on Google.

Answer 3

Remember Spain:
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The legions march
Across the olive groves of Spain
Their feet are guns
Their eyes are bullets in my lungs-
Remember Spain

I cried to you
When the first flame arose
In Andalusia
Now the flame is a fire
That burns the Pyrenees-
Remember Spain

I will not yield
I will not fall
I will eat dynamite
And one day I will explode
Like a volcano-
Remember Spain

Listen,
They are bombing Guernica
Arrows fall from the skiea
Bayonets are growin in the fields
Children are bleeding
I will not weep-

Remember Spain
Remember Spain...