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IRISH SONGS AND LYRICS 97 |
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JAMES CLARENCE MANGAN
(1803-1849)
A VISION
Translated from Conor O'Riordan
Conor O'Riordan was a native of West Muskerry, County Cork, and flourished about 1760. He, was a schoolmaster, like most of his associates.
ONCE I strayed from Charleville, As careless as could be; I wandered over plain and hill Until I reached the Lee,— And there I found a flowery dell Of beauty rare to tell, With woods around as rich in swell As eye shall ever see.
Wild-birds warbled in their bower
Songs passing soft and sweet, And brilliant hues adorned each flower
That bloomed beneath my feet. All sickness, feebleness, and pain, The wounded heart and tortured brain? Would vanish, ne'er to come again,
In that serene retreat!
Lying in my lonely lair
In sleep medreamt I saw A damsel wonderfully fair,
Whose beauty waked my awe. |
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