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" Kathleen Mavourneen ! awake from thy slumbers,
The blue mountains glow m the sun's golden light; Ah 1 where is the spell that once hung on thy numbers ?
Arise in thy beauty, thou star of the night' Mavotrrneen ! Mavoumeen I my sad tears are falling,
To think that from Enn and thee I must part: It may be for years, and it may be for ever,
Then why art thou silent, thou voice of my heart ?''
A very graceful imitation, or rather tribute, to the excellence of the song has appeared from the pen of J. Whitcomb Riley, an American poet of much delicacy of feeling and expression and is well worth preserving:
" Kathleen Mavourneen ! thy song is still ringing,
As fresh and as clear as the trill of the birds ; In world-weary hearts it is sobbmg and singing,
In pathos too sweet for tenderest words. Oh ' have we forgotten the one who first breathed it?
Oh ! have we forgotten his rapturous art ? Our meed to the Master whose genius bequeathed it ?
Oh ! why art thou silent, thou voice of the heart?
" Kathleen Mavoumeen 1 thy lover still lingers,
The long night is wamng, the stars pale and few ; Thy sad serenader, with tremulous fingers,
Is bowed with his tears as the lily with dew. The old haip-strmgs quaver, the old voice is shaking,
In sighs and in sobs moans the yearning refrain : The old vision dims, and the old heart is breaking— Kathleen Mavoumeen, inspire us again I"
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