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HIBERNIAN SONGSTER.
Fair as the glittering waters.
Thy emerald banks that lave. To me thy graceful daughters;
Thy generous sons are brave. O there are hearts within thee.
That know not shame cor guile, And such proud homage win thee,
My own green Isle!
For their dear sakes I love thee,
Mavourneen, though unseen; Bright be the sky above thee.
Thy shamrock ever green! May evil ne'er distress thee.
Nor darken, nor defile, But Heaven forever bless thee
My own green Isle. |
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THE COLLEEN BAWN.
Och! Patrick darlin', would you lave me
To sail across the big sait sea? I never thought you'd thus decave me;
It's not the truth you're tellin' me! Though Dublin is a mighty city,
It's there I should be quite forlorn, For, poor and friendless, who would pity—
Left lonely there—your Colleen Bawn?
You tell me that your friends are leaving
The dear green isle, to cross the main, But don't you think they'll soon be grieving
For dear ould Ireland once again? Can they forget each far-famed river?
Each hill a thousand songs adorn? Can you depart from them forever—
Could you forget your Colleen Bawn?
Sure, Patrick, me you've been beguiling.
It's not my heart you mane to break, Tho" fortune may not now be smiling,
Your Coileen Bawn you'll not forsake; I'll go with you across the sea, dear,
If brighter days for us won't dawn; No matter where our home may be, dear,
I still will be your Colleen Bawn. |
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O'BLARNEY.
Oh! have you not heard of O'Blarney, Who came all the way from Killarney,
If you fear a black eye, -—
Take warning and fly, For a broth of a boy is O'Blarney. When the potteen, that's whisky. Is steaming, 'Tis nought but of fighting he's dreaming.
And, och, I can tell
Where mischief does dwell— The shillelah of Paddy O'Blarney. Then should you e'er meet this O'Blarney, Who rode all on foot from Killarney,
Beware of his smile,
Mind your eye all the while, A shillelah has Paddy O'Blarney! Though he looks so bewitchingly simple Och, faith! but he'd soon crack your pimple,
And should he inhale
A drop of the rale, Then fatal's the blow of O'Blarney! |
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