"Danny" by J.M. Synge (poetry)

Synge was Irish and a friend of Yeats'. He had a terrible life with illness and he died young. He wrote "The Playboy of the Western World" which caused riots when first performed in Dublin. He wrote a curse on a man's sister who had objected to the play, which amuses me so much I'll tell you it: "Lord, confound this surly sister, Blight her brow with blotch and blister, Cramp her larynx, lung, and liver, In her guts a galling give her. Let her live to earn her dinners In Mountjoy with seedy sinners: Lord, this judgment quickly bring, And I'm your servant, J. M. Synge."