Scoil: Ráth Séideóg (uimhir rolla 8786)

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1. Biddy's Answer

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   Pat, agra, your letters come
   Like an angel o'er the wave,
   From my dear old Irish home,
   From beside my father's grave
   And you ask me to return
   O'er the love-dividing sea,
   Ah ! my eyes with hot tears burn,
   But I cannot go to thee.

   For my heart is still as proud
   As it was that fearful day,
   When my sire's grey head was bowed
   To the tyrant's brutal sway.
   When I swore that solemn vow
   To go far across the sea
   That a slave I ne'er would bow
   In your Erin, love, with thee.

   Dear I'm lonely and I'm sad
   And I long to see again
   Bridge and trysting-tree, my lad,
   Where I felt thy bosom's strain.
   When the city's ceaseless swell
   Sounds around me, suil machree,
   Back, recalled by memory's spell,

   (leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)

   

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