My Lagan Love

1. Where Lagan stream sings lullaby
   There blows a lily fair
   The twilight gleam is in her eye
   The night is on her hair
   And like a love-sick lennan-shee
   She has my heart in thrall
   Nor life I owe nor liberty
   For love is lord of all.

2. Her father sails a running-barge
   'Twixt Leamh-beag and The Druim;
   And on the lonely river-marge
   She clears his hearth for him.
   When she was only fairy-high
   Her gentle mother died;
   But dew-Love keeps her memory
   Green on the Lagan side.

3. And often when the beetle's horn
   Hath lulled the eve to sleep
   I steal unto her shieling lorn
   And thru the dooring peep.
   There on the cricket's singing stone,
   She spares the bogwood fire,
   And hums in sad sweet undertone
   The songs of heart's desire

4. Her welcome, like her love for me,
   Is from her heart within:
   Her warm kiss is felicity
   That knows no taint of sin.
   And, when I stir my foot to go,
   'Tis leaving Love and light
   To feel the wind of longing blow
   From out the dark of night.

5. Where Lagan stream sings lullaby
   There blows a lily fair
   The twilight gleam is in her eye
   The night is on her hair
   And like a love-sick lennan-shee
   She has my heart in thrall
   Nor life I owe nor liberty
   For love is lord of all.

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