Two lovely daughters of the imperial isle;
They gave my quiet hearth-stone every pleasure,
They gave my lone heart every sunny smile,
And to your land I brought them o’er the sea,
To hear the tones which tell of Liberty!
They were twin lasses; one was like the Rose,
With deep, dark crimson on its opening breast;
The other like the Daisy, when it glows
With evening’s pearls upon its snowy crest.
And when they nestled near me lovingly,