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Page 137 - The thrush will call through Camlin groves the live-long summer day; , ,, The waters run by mossy cliff, and bank with wild flowers gay; The girls will bring their work and sing beneath a twisted thorn, Or stray with sweethearts down the path among the growing corn; Along the river side they go, where I have often been, O, never shall I see again the days that I have seen ! A thousand chances are to one I never may return, Adieu to Ballyshannon, and the winding banks of Erne ! Adieu to evening dances,...
Page 132 - I'll think of you, as sure as night and morn. „ The kindly spot, the friendly town, where every one is known, And not a face in all the place but partly seems my own. There's not a house or window, there's not a field or hill, But, east or west, in foreign lands, I'll recollect them still. I leave my warm heart with you, though my back I'm forced to turn — So adieu to Ballyshannon, and the winding banks of Erne...
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Page 12 - Nicolas, and Antoine Padeloup and the Deromes, in France,- and of the Harleian style and Roger Payne in England. Any division must necessarily be somewhat arbitrary, but it happens that in this case the centuries correspond pretty definitely to the different types of the art at different periods of its development.
Page 11 - Thou shall intimately lie In the roots of flowers that thrust Upwards from thee to the sky, With no more distrust, When they blossom from thy dust. Silent labours of the rain Shall be near thee, reconciled ; Little lives of leaves and grain, All things shy and wild Tell thee secrets, quiet child.
Page 132 - THE EMIGRANT'S ADIEU TO BALLYSHANNON A Local Ballad ADIEU to Ballyshannon! where I was bred and born; Go where I may, I'll think of you, as sure as night and morn, The kindly spot, the friendly town, where everyone is known, And not a face in all the place but partly seems my own...
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