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Padraic Colum (1881–1972). Anthology of Irish Verse. 1922.

By Sir Samuel Ferguson

15. Dear Dark Head

PUT your head, darling, darling, darling,

Your darling black head my heart above;

Oh, mouth of honey, with the thyme for fragrance,

Who with heart in breast could deny you love?

Oh, many and many a young girl for me is pining,

Letting her locks of gold to the cold wind free,

For me, the foremost of our gay young fellows;

But I’d leave a hundred, pure love, for thee!

Then put your head, darling, darling, darling,

Your darling black head my heart above;

Oh, mouth of honey, with the thyme for fragrance,

Who, with heart in breast, could deny you love?