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IRISH SONGS AND LYRICS 469 |
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Each mountain glen and mossy fen,
In fear shall move, Some future day, ere thou pass away,
My Rbs geal dubh / |
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THE DAWNING OF THE DAY1
From the Irish |
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T early dawn I once had been Where Lene's blue waters flow, When summer bid the groves be green, The lamp of light to glow. As on by bower, and town, and tower,
And wide-spread fields I stray, I met a maid in the greenwood shade At the dawning of the day ! |
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Her feet and beauteous head were bare,
No mantle fair she wore; But down her waist fell golden hair,
That swept the tall grass o'er. With milking-pail she sought the vale,
And bright her charms' display ; Outshining far the morning star
At the dawning of the day !
1 A close rendering of the Gaelic Fainne geal an Lae. Walsh has preserved some of the internal chimes characteristic of Irish verse. |
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