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IRISH SONGS AND LYRICS 357 |
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THE WILD GEESE
I
HAD no sail to cross the sea, A brave white bird went forth from me, My heart was hid beneath his wing :
0 strong white bird, come back in spring !
1 watched the wild geese rise and cry Across the flaring western sky;
Their winnowing pinions clove the light, Then vanished, and came down the night.
I laid me low, my day was done, I longed not for the morrow's sun, But closely swathed in swoon of sleep, Forgot to hope, forgot to weep.
The moon, through veils of gloomy red, A warm yet dusky radiance shed All down our valley's golden stream, And flushed my slumber with a dream.
Her mystic torch lit up my brain; My spirit rose and lived amain, And followed through the windy spray That bird upon its watery way.
" O wild white bird, O wait for me! My soul hath wings to fly with thee : On foam waves, lengthening out afar, We'll ride towards the western star.
"O'er glimmering plains, through forest gloom, To track a wanderer's feet I come; |
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