O, it was out by Donnycarney
When the bat flew from tree to tree
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What counsel has the hooded moon
Put in thy heart, my shyly sweet,
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He travels after a winter sun,
Urging the cattle along a cold red road,
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Winds of May, that dance on the sea,
Dancing a ring-around in glee
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Though I thy Mithridates were,
Framed to defy the poison-dart,
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Sleep now, O sleep now,
O you unquiet heart!
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He who hath glory lost, nor hath
Found any soul to fellow his,
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Rain on Rahoon falls softly, softly falling,
Where my dark lover lies.
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Who goes amid the green wood
With springtide all adorning her?
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O bella bionda,
Sei come l'onda!
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Go seek her out all courteously,
And say I come,
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Thou leanest to the shell of night,
Dear lady, a divining ear.
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O cool is the valley now
And there, love, will we go
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My love is in a light attire
Among the apple-trees,
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Wind whines and whines the shingle,
The crazy pierstakes groan;
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Silently she's combing,
Combing her long hair
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Strings in the earth and air
Make music sweet;
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When the shy star goes forth in heaven
All maidenly, disconsolate,
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This heart that flutters near my heart
My hope and all my riches is,
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Rain has fallen all the day.
O come among the laden trees:
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In the dark pine-wood
I would we lay,
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Bright cap and streamers,
He sings in the hollow:
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From dewy dreams, my soul, arise,
From love's deep slumber and from death,
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Of that so sweet imprisonment
My soul, dearest, is fain -- -
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Because your voice was at my side
I gave him pain,
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Now, O now, in this brown land
Where Love did so sweet music make
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Lightly come or lightly go:
Though thy heart presage thee woe,
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I would in that sweet bosom be
(O sweet it is and fair it is!)
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Love came to us in time gone by
When one at twilight shyly played
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My dove, my beautiful one,
Arise, arise!
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