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IRISH SONGS AND LYRICS 277 |
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No spirit in truth ! yet it seemed, as while in dreams I
stood, That a music more than earthly had swept through the
darkening wood.
And it seemed that the Day to the Morrow bequeathed in that solemn strain
The whole world's hope and labor, its love and its ancient pain. |
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SONG OF MAELDUIN
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HERE are veils that lift, there are bars that fall, There are lights that beckon, and winds that call —
Good-bye! There are hurrying feet, and we dare not wait, For the hour is on us—the hour of Fate, The circling hour of the flaming gate —
Good-bye—good-bye—good-bye !
Fair, fair they shine through the burning zone — The rainbow gleams of a world unknown ;
Good-bye ! And oh ! to follow, to seek, to dare, When, step by step, in the evening air Floats down to meet us the cloudy stair!
Good-bye—good-bye—good-bye !
The cloudy stair of the Brig o' Dread Is the dizzy path that our feet must tread — Good-bye ! |
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