Of one who clambered upward from the shore—

Whose feet with mine kept timin’ as the pair o’ us went climbin’

Long ago that “bohareen” at Ballymore!


[1] “Bohareen,” bypath.

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AN IRISH IDYL

As I stood amid the bracken, as I stood amid the fern,

I could hear the merry bicker, the blithe bicker of the burn.

Bees were hummin’, softly hummin’;

“She ’s a comin’! She ’s a comin’!”