Whether our spirits would be found

Floating along the starry way,

Or in the earthly vapours drowned.

Brought by the sunrise-coloured flame

To earth, uncertain yet, the while

I looked at you, there slowly came,

Noble and sisterly, your smile.

We bade adieu to love the old;

We heard another lover then,

Whose forms are myriad and untold,

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Sigh to us from the hearts of men.

SONG

Dusk its ash-grey blossoms sheds on violet skies,

Over twilight mountains where the heart songs rise,

Rise and fall and fade away from earth to air.

Earth renews the music sweeter. Oh, come there.

Come, acushla, come, as in ancient times

Rings aloud the underland with faery chimes.

Down the unseen ways as strays each tinkling fleece

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