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IRISH MELODIES. |
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SWEET INNISFALLEN.
Sweet Innisfallen, fare thee well,
May calm and sunshine long be thine!
How fair thou art let others tell, To feel how fair shall long be mine.
Sweet Innisfallen, long shall dwell In memory's dream that sunny smile
Which o'er thee on that evening fell, When first I saw thy fairy isle.
'Twas light, indeed, too blest for one Who had to turn to paths of care —
Through crowded haunts again to run, And leave thee bright and silent there
No more unto thy shores to come, But, on the world's rude ocean tost,
Dream of thee sometimes, as a home Of sunshine he had seen and lost.
Far better in thy weeping hours To part from thee, as I do now,
When mist is o'er thy blooming bowers, Like sorrow's veil on beauty's brow.
For, though unrivall'd still thy grace, Thou dost not look, as then, too blest,
But, thus in shadow, seem'st a place
Where erring man might hope to rest — |
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