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Thread #5812   Message #1880051
Posted By: GUEST
09-Nov-06 - 07:44 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Isle of Innisfree
Subject: Lyr Add: LAKE ISLE OF INNISFREE (W B Yeats)
I don't know if either of these will help, the first is a poem but Cathy Ryan sings it.
For the second, the version that I have is by Oisin.



Lake Isle of Inisfree W B Yeats

I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made;
Nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honey bee,
And live alone in the bee-loud glade.

2. And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,
Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;
There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,
And evening full of the linnet's wings.

3. I will arise and go now, for always night and day
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements gray,
I hear it in the deep heart's core.



Inisfree

Come all ye lads and lassies, I hope you will attend,
And likewise pay attention to these words that I mean to pen,
I'm going to leave this country, go to a land that's free,
And I'll bid farewell to all my friends around by Inisfree.

When she rises in the morning, she walks along the shore,
And watches the big ship sailing by, that brought her lover o'er.
She watches the foaming billows, as they roll along the sea,
And she sighs and says, "my Jimmy boy, you're far from Inisfree."

It's true that I love you Mary, I ne'er could love you more,
Oh! I love you far better, than any I've loved before,
And when I am on the ocean wide, neither hill nor vale to see,
I'll be thinking of you Mary, and far from Inisfree,

Farewell to all the bounding ? and ? around Aranmore,
And twice farewell to you Mary, will I ever see you more?
Perhaps someday we may meet again, all in a land that's free,
And we'll live and love each other, as we did in Inisfree