GUEST,SeaCanary: Since you seem very particular to have the lyrics exactly as they appear in "Songs of Uladh," I have copied them here (using Matthew Edwards' link). They are nearly the same as those in the DT; I have boldfaced the words that are different, although the differences are small: blows/blooms, has/hath, often/oft-times, songs/song. Also I have tried to get the spelling and punctuation exactly right, but I have not bothered to boldface those differences.


MY LAGAN LOVE

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.