Picturesque Ireland : a literary and artistic delineation of the natural scenery, remarkable places, historical antiquities, public buildings, ancient abbeys, towers, castles, and other romantic and attractive features of Ireland . OSULLIVANS CASCADE. 34 PICTURESQUE IRELAND. Sweet lanisfallen, fare thee well; May calm and sunshine long be thine \How fair thou art let others tell—To feel how fair shall long be mine. Sweet Innisfallen, long shall dwell In memorys dream that sunny smileWhich oer thee on that evening fell,When first I saw thy fairy isle. Twas light, indeed, too blest
Picturesque Ireland : a literary and artistic delineation of the natural scenery, remarkable places, historical antiquities, public buildings, ancient abbeys, towers, castles, and other romantic and attractive features of Ireland . OSULLIVANS CASCADE. 34 PICTURESQUE IRELAND. Sweet lanisfallen, fare thee well; May calm and sunshine long be thine \How fair thou art let others tell—To feel how fair shall long be mine. Sweet Innisfallen, long shall dwell In memorys dream that sunny smileWhich oer thee on that evening fell,When first I saw thy fairy isle. Twas light, indeed, too blest for oneWho had to turn to paths of care—Through crowded haunts again to leave thee bright and silent there ; No more unto thy shores to come, But, on the worlds rude ocean of thee sometimes, as a homeOf sunshine he had seen and lost. * Far better in thy weeping hours,To part from thee as I do now ;When mist is oer thy blooming bowers,Like sorrows veil on beautys brow. For, though unrivald still thy dost not look, as then, too blest,But thus in shadow, seemst a place Where erring man might hope to rest— Might hope to rest, and find in theeA gloom like Edens, on the dayHe left its shade, when every tre
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