Red Roses Owed
![Hilda Blennerhasset is said to walk the floors of Ballyseedy Castle in Ballycarty in Kerry carrying a single red rose. Why the rose? It was part of the rent due to the crown, to be paid on St John the Baptists Day every year...](http://www.writingsinrhyme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Rose-of-Ballyseedy-Castle.jpg)
She walks its halls within its walls
Red rose in ghostly hands
The rent to be paid when grant was made
Of these Fitzgerald lands.
Six pounds too a year was due
But in the afterlife it seems
Money is dead, but instead
Everything a promise means.
She walks its floors through walls and doors
A single rose around does bring
Word honoured to the crown as she looks down
From a window on a land that knows neither queen or king!
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