[BLACK SILE OF THE SILVER EYE]

As I rode down to Gartan fair

I met a girl upon the way:

The winter night was on her hair,

The summer dawn was in her eye.

And O, she stepped with such a gait,

And bore her round black head so high,

And tossed it so, I knew her straight

For Sile of the Silver Eye.

“God save you, Sile, love,” says I: