“The winds of war came sweeping cruel,
The flower would not cry,
Oh, how it broke the freeman's heart,
To see the first rose die.
Some soldiers plucked the garden's joy, And left a burning mark,
Upon the silver petalled bloom,
Now fettered in he dark.”

—  Bobby Sands

"Comrades in the Dark"
Poetry, Miscellaneous poems

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Irish volunteer of the Provisional Irish Republican Army 1954–1981

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