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IRISH SONGS AND LYRICS 353 |
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And set thy tender footprints in the green. Thus sing our birds with holy note and pure,
As though the loves of angels were their theme; Thus burn to throbbing flame our sacred fires With heats that still endure;
Thence hath'our daffodil its golden gleam, From thy dear mindfulness that never tires !
SHAMROCKS
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WEAR a shamrock in my heart. Three in one, one in three — Truth and love and faith, Tears and pain and death; O sweet my shamrock is to me !
Lay me in my hollow bed, Grow the shamrocks over me. Three in one, one in three, Faith and hope and charity, Peace and rest and silence be
With me where you lay my head : O dear the shamrocks are to me !
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HE silent bird is hid in the boughs, The scythe is hid in the corn, The lazy oxen wink and drowse, The grateful sheep are shorn; Redder and redder burns the rose,
The lily was ne'er so pale,
Stiller and stiller the river flows
Along the path to the vale. |
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