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I sat within a valley green, |
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I sat me with my true love, |
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My sad heart strove the two between, |
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The old love and the new love, |
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The old for her, the new that made |
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Me think on Ireland dearly, |
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While soft the wind blew down the glade And shook' the golden barley |
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Twas hard the woeful words to frame |
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To break the ties that bound us |
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But harder still to bear the shame |
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Of foreign chains around us |
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And so I said, "The mountain glen |
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I'll seek an morning early |
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And join the brave United Men!" |
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While soft winds shook' the barley |
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While sad I kissed away her tears, |
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My fond arms 'round her clinging, |
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The foeman's shot burst on our ears, |
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From out the wildwood ringing, - |
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The bullet pierced my true love's side, |
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In life's young spring so early, |
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And on my breast in blood she died |
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While soft winds shook' the barley |
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But blood for blood without remorse, |
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I've ta'en at Oulart Hollow |
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I've placed my true love's clay-cold corpse |
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Where mine full soon will follow; |
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And round her grave I wander drear, |
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Noon, night and morning early, |
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With aching heart whene'er I hear |
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The wind that shakes the barley |
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