'The Valley lay smiling before me'

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Title

'The Valley lay smiling before me'

Description

Poem by Thomas Moore.

Creator

Margaret McLoughlin

Publisher

Trinity College Dublin

Date

2012

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Relation

Margaret McLoughlin

Is Part Of

Reflections

Type

Life Story

Spatial Coverage

Dublin

Temporal Coverage

1960s

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Text

The Valley lay smiling before me. ByThomas Moore The valley lay smiling before me where lately I left her behind Yet I trembled and something hung o'er me That saddened the hoys of my mind I looked for the lamp which she told me Should shine when her pilgrim returned But though darkness began to enfold me No lamp from the battlements burned I flew to her chamber t'was lonely As if the young tenant lay dead Ah would it were death and death only But no the young false one had fled And there hung the lute that could soften My very worst pains into bliss While the hand that had waked it so often Now throbbed to a pride livals kiss While now oh degenerate daughter of Erin How fallen is thy fame Through ages of bondage and slaughter Thy country shall bleed for thy shame But onward the green banners rearing Go flesh every sword to the hilt On our side is virtue and Eireann On theirs is the Saxon and guilt

Sponsor

Irish Research Council for Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences (IRCHSS)

Research Coordinator/P.I.

Dr Kathleen McTiernan (Trinity College Dublin)

Senior Research Associate

Dr Deirdre O'Donnell (Trinity College Dublin)

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