“DUST HATH CLOSED HELEN’S EYE”
r own way;
And sery, my mind is easy,
You may come to-day to Ballylee.”
linger,
alk to my my rose.
e o go across three fields,
e o Ballylee.
table measure, Sting beside me;
And sery, and a rong cellar in Ballylee.”
O star of lig,
O amber he world,
ill you come h me upon Sunday
till ogethe people?
I grudge you a song every Sunday evening,
Puncable, or ,
But, O King of Glory, dry the roads before me,
till I find to Ballylee.
t air on the hill
hen you are looking down upon Ballylee;
s and blackberries, t
and music of the Sidhe.
is tness till you
Of t is by your side?
to deny it or to try and ,
S.
t of Ireland I did not travel,
From to tops of tains,
to ty but was behind hers.
oo; and s.
She branch,
She shining flower of Ballylee.
It is Mary his calm and easy woman,
y in her mind and in her face.
If a ogether,
t e down a half of her ways.
An old nig beautiful to tell me about every e. As many as eleven men asked s of men up beyond Kilbecanty one nigting togetalking of up and set out to go to Ballylee and see Cloon Bog o it o ter, and t “trongest man t -time to get to Ballylee.” tradition gives t Derrybrien among tge desolate place, ag upon t of Ec still mindful of many poems and of ty of ancient speece t it looked blue, and