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Thread #1116 Message #2519551
Posted By: GUEST,Jamey McCurdy
19-Dec-08 - 03:37 AM
Thread Name: Lyr ADD: Rathlin Island
Subject: Lyr Add: THE ENCHANTED ISLAND (Luke Aylmer Conolly
THE ENCHANTED ISLAND
(Luke Aylmer Conolly)
To Rathlin's Isle I chanced to sail,
When summer breezes softly blew,
And there I heard as sweet a tale,
That oft I wished it could be true.
They say, at eve, when rude winds sleep,
And hushed is every turbid swell,
A Mermaid rises from the deep,
And sweetly tunes her magic shell.
And while she plays, rock, dell, and cave,
In dying falls the sound retain,
As if some choral spirits gave
Their aid to swell her witching strain.
Then summoned by that dulcet note,
Uprising to th' admiring view,
A fairy island seems to float
With tints of many a gorgeous hue.
And glittering fanes, and lofty towers,
All on this fairy isle are seen;
And waving trees, and shady bowers,
With more than mortal verdure green.
And as it moves, the western sky
Glows with a thousand varying rays;
The calm sea, tinged with each dye,
Seems like a golden flood of blaze.
They also say, if earth or stone,
From verdant Erin's hallowed land,
Were on this magic island thrown,
For ever fixed, it would there stand.
But, when for this, some little boat
In silence ventures from the shore—
The mermaid sinks—hushed is the note;
The fairy isle is seen no more!
I got this out of the book Rathlin's Rugged Story by Augustine McCurdy. It's called THE ENCHANTED ISLAND. I hope someone gets this let me know if you do freak_nurse@hotmail.com