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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 @Irish @love filename[ LAGANLUV DS |
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