The Golden Treasury of Irish Songs & Lyrics

Volume Two - Complete Text & Lyrics

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288 THE GOLDEN TREASURY OF
How every high and lonely thought that thrills my spirit through
Is but a shining berry dropped down through the purple air,
And from the magic tree of life the fruit falls every­where.
DIVIDED
I N childhood days we were not apart: One spirit breathed in your heart and my heart; It flowed through us in our childhood days As hosts that march through the broad highways.
The ancient magic is over and dead For Love awoke and the voices fled ; We know no more of the superhuman : 1 am a man and you are a woman.
INHERITANCE
A S flow the rivers to the sea Adown from rocky hill or plain, A thousand ages toiled for thee And gave thee harvest of their grain; And weary myriads of yore Dug out for thee earth's buried lore.
The shadowy toilers for thee fought,
In chaos of primeval day, Blind battles with they knew not what;