American Old Time Song Lyrics: 10 Arabys Daughter

Theater, Music-Hall, Nostalgic, Irish & Historic Old Songs, Volume 10

ARABY'S DAUGHTER

Farewell, farewell In thee, Araby's daughter!
(Thus Warbled a Peri beneath the dark sea:)
No pearl ever lay under Oman's green water.
More pure in its shell than thy spirit in thee.
Around thee shall glisten the loveliest amber.
That ever the sorrowing and-Mid has wept;
With many a shell, in whose hollow wreathed chamber.
The Peris of ocean by moonlight have slept.

Nor shall Iran beloved of her hero forget thee,
Though tyrants watch over her tears as they start;
Close, close by the side of that hero she'll set thee,
Enbalmed in the innermost shrine of her heart.
Around thee shall glisten the loveliest amber,
That ever the sorrowing sea-bird has wept;
'With many a shell, in whose hollow wreathed chamber,
The Peris of ocean by moonlight have slept.