The Texan Poet Ross Perot

To mark the establishment of the Harry E. McKillop

Irish Spirit Award

Think where man’s glory most begins and ends

and say my glory was I had such friends

W.B. Yeats

The Municipal Gallery Revisited (1937)

His grand achievements are engraved upon the walls

these things are his and his alone to know

the world wrapped in ribbons that he tied

but this is not the place to dwell upon his monumental side

For greatness is the sum of simple things besides

and the smallest act of kindness can improve the world

Once with his sparkling eye I heard him kindly say

this man from Ballycastle taught me everything I know

which brought to mind

the words of William Butler Yeats in Dublin over sixty years ago

And to come in June the countryside awash with flowers how wise

Harry E. McKillop and his friend the Texan poet Henry Ross Perot