A DONEGAL HUSH SONG.

New Zealand Tablet, 7 April 1921, Page 11

A DONEGAL HUSH SONG.

God bring you safe from the death sleep of night, A Leanniv Machree, • My Heart’s Delight, From the green-hill’ d homes of the Shee, O’er the purple rim of a starlit sea, Through a leafy lane, o’er Moy Me’rs plain, Where dew-drops strung on a gossamer chain, From blossomy boughs, swing to and fro, And a round, red moon hangs low, so low— God bring you safe through the Night to me, My Heart’s Delight, A Leanniv Machree, , _ , God bring you safe from the death sleep of night, A Leanniv Machree, My Heart’s Delight, v' ■ From the grey world’s edge where the rose-dawn sleeps, Through.the white dream gates where the shy day- peeps, Down the silver track of the Morning Star,.. v ; To the yellow strand where the white cliffs are, Where each fairy foot in a fairy brogue , v ; Is hastening away to Tir-na-oge. : ; God bring you safe to the Dawn and me, - '■ v : . j My Heart’s Delight,’ -c , ' A Leanniv Machree, ; — Cathal O’Byrne., ,