Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes. Ireland: Vol. V. 187679. | | Moyle, the River | The Song of Fionnuala | Thomas Moore (17791852) |
| SILENT, O Moyle, be the roar of thy water, | |
Break not, ye breezes, your chain of repose, | |
While, murmuring mournfully, Lirs lonely daughter | |
Tells to the night-star her tale of woes. | |
When shall the swan, her death-note singing, | 5 |
Sleep, with wings in darkness furled? | |
When will heaven, its sweet bell ringing, | |
Call my spirit from this stormy world? | |
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Sadly, O Moyle, to thy winter-wave weeping, | |
Fate bids me languish long ages away; | 10 |
Yet still in her darkness doth Erin lie sleeping, | |
Still doth the pure light its dawning delay. | |
When will that day-star, mildly springing, | |
Warm our isle with peace and love? | |
When will heaven, its sweet bell ringing, | 15 |
Call my spirit to the fields above? | | | |
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