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IRISH SONGS AND LYRICS 125 |
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So full his breast, he scarce could speak,
With burning grasp the stretched hands taking,
He pressed a kiss on every cheek,
And sobbed as if his heart was breaking.
"Boys, don't forget me when I'm gone,
For sake of all the days passed over — The days you spent on heath and bawn
With Donal Ruadh, the rattlin' rover. Mary, agra, your soft brown eye
Has willed my fate '' (he whispered lowly) ; " Another holds thy heart: good-bye !
Heaven grant you both its blessings holy ! "
A kiss upon her brow of snow,*
A rush across the moonlit meadow, Whose broom-clad hazels, trembling slow,
The mossy boreen wrapped in shadow; Away o'er Tully's bounding rill,
And far beyond the Inny river; One cheer on Carrick's rocky hill,
And Donal Kenny's gone forever.
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The breezes whistled through the sails,
O'er Galway Bay the ship was heaving, And smothered groans and bursting wails
Told all the grief and pain of leaving. One form among that exiled band
Of parting sorrow gave no token, Still was his breath, and cold his hand :
For Donal Kenny's heart was broken. |
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