Lagan Love

Lyrics

Where Lagan stream sings lullaby
there grows a lily fair

The twilight gleam is in her eye,
the night is on her hair

And like a love-sick lennan-shee she has 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 often when the beetle’s horn
hath lulled the eve to sleep

I steal unto her shieling lorn
and thru the doorway creep

There on the cricket’s singing stone she spares the bogwood fire

And hums in soft sweet undertone 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

Nor life I owe nor liberty for Love is lord of all