Hi

Your English song is Alfred Perceval Graves' poem (from "The Irish Poems") called "For I Had a Spirit Above My Degree". The 1st verse is ...

With the lark up above, the Lent lilies below,
Young Owen came courting, I could not say No !
But because I was poor and of humble degree,
His proud parents parted my Owen and me.

and a later verse has

I looked in his eyes and I saw they were wild,
With the sweet old croonawns his mood I beguiled,
Till his heart-broken father came over the lea
With the keepers and took him still crying for me.

Hope this is useful.

:-)
Ian