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Thread #91316 Message #1736079
Posted By: Big Tim
09-May-06 - 07:12 AM
Thread Name: the word 'dooring' from Lagan Love
Subject: RE: the word 'dooring' from Lagan Love
OK Paul, the following is as per the original.
MY LAGAN LOVE
Where lagan stream sings lullaby There blooms a lily fair: The twilight-gleam is in her eye, The night is on her hair. And, like a love-sick leanan-sidhe, She hath my heart in thrall: Nor life I owe, nor liberty, For Love is lord of all.
Her father sails a running-barge, 'Twixt Leamh-beag and The Druim; And on the lonely river-marge, She clears his hearth for him. When she was only fairy-high Her gentle mother died; But dew-Love keeps her memory Green on the Lagan-side.
And oft-times, when the beetle's horn Hath lulled the eve to sleep, I steal unto her shieling lorn, And thro' the dooring peep, There on the crickets' singing stone She spares the bogwood fire, And hums in sad, sweet under-tone The song 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 foot to go, 'Tis leaving Love and light To feel the wind of longing blow From out the dark of night.