Ceol-Sidhe
Nora Hopper Chesson
1871 to 1906
Track 1
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It sang for the hope of Eri
For night or day,
It laughed and it grew not weary,
Cry through the Heart Lake's rushes,
With the kindliest folk of Eri
All under the druid quicken,
For joy that died —
It sighed and was sweeter yet,
Where, scarlet-clad,
And under the oaks, unstricken,
It's O to be there," I cried,
And falter and fade away,
There never was any piping
To dance with no thought of grieving
In the golden throat of a bird,
Drove my dream away.
Like odours of thyme one crushes
And her heavy fret.
Sweet, sweet is the twilight dancing,
It came like the wind, and lightly
That in dreams I heard
So merry and none so sad,
For it sang of a far green island
And when silence took the piping,
In the heat of the day.
So sweet and tender and gay,
There never was any piping
There never was any music
But the dawn through the rushes glancing
Till the dew's away.
Feeds Saav, the doe.
Wild dancers gather and go,
To dance, and be never weary
Not sweet is the homespun day.
It blew away —
More fine and clear than the piping
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