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some of these pilgrims into the boat, he hap-pened to take the hand of a female, and sud-denly exclaimed " Dar lama mo Chardais Crist" (" This is the hand of Bridget Cruise"). He was not deceived; it was the hand of her who had enerared his youthful affections and whose image had been so deeply engraved in his heart On this incident Samuel Lover wrote a charm-ing song called " Carolan and Bridget Cruise." Love songs, drinking songs, songs of the fairies—O'Carolan treated them all with equal candour and ability, and were his pieces of more than local repute, many entertaining stories of their origin could be told, " O'More's Fair Daughter;" the melody of which, I believe, has never been written down, was a love song, written by O'Carolan for one of the younger members of the O'Donnell family, who fell in love with the " Hawk of Bally Shannon," whom he accidentally met one day near her father's house. Begging for a glass of water as a pre-tence to have converse with her, he resolved at all costs to win her for his wife. O' Carolan wrote a song especially for him to sing to an ancient air by Rory Dall, which on the first opportunity he performed by harp and voice, and won the daughter of the renowned G'More for his bride. Much could be written about 0'Carolan who
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