LAGAN LOVE
(Joseph Campbell)

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

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

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 soot to go,
'Tis leaving love and light
To feel the wind of longing blow
From out the dark of night

From Songs of Man, Luboff and Stracke, (NY: Bonanza, 1965)
Note: According to Luboff & Stracke, the tune is from Ulster and
the words early 20th century. I would guess that it is a "parlour"
song which has passed into tradition on the strength of the tune
more than the words.

In Scotsh Gaelic a "leannan-sidhe" is a Faery Lover. This type of Faery
Lover often takes a person's love and then leaves. He or she goes back
where they came from (Faery Land?) leaving the human pining for their
lost love. The poor mortals in the tales of leannan sidhe often died of
sorrow. DS,BG

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