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IRISH SONGS AND LYRICS 133 |
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ALICE MILLIGAN A MAY LOVE SONG
IT is far and it is far To Connemara where you are, To where its purple glens enfold you As glowing heavens that hold a star.
But they shall shine, they yet shall shine, Colleen, those eyes of yours on mine, Like stars that after eve assemble And tremble over the mountain line.
Though it be far, though it be far, I'll travel over, to where you are, By grasslands green that lie between And shining lakes at Mullingar.
And we shall be, we yet shall be, Oh, Colleen lonely, beloved by me, For evermore on a moor of Mayo, 'Mid heather singing like the sea. |
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FIONNUALA
AMONG the reeds, round waters blue White wings are spread, And she is seen, who should have been For ages dead; |
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