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CROCKNAHARNA by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE

First Line: ON THE HEIGHTS OF CROCKNAHARNA
Last Line: TWENTY HUNDRED MILES AWAY.
Subject(s): MOUNTAINS; HILLS; DOWNS (GREAT BRITAIN);
ON the heights of Crocknaharna,
(Oh, the lure of Crocknaharna)
On a morning fair and early
Of a dear remembered May,
There I heard a colleen singing
In the brown rocks and the grey.
She, the pearl of Crocknaharna,
Crocknaharna, Crocknaharna,
Wild with girls is Crocknaharna
Twenty hundred miles away.

On the heights of Crocknaharna,
(Oh, thy sorrow Crocknaharna)
On an evening dim and misty
Of a cold November day,
There I heard a woman weeping
In the brown rocks and the grey.
Oh, the pearl of Crocknaharna
(Crocknaharna, Crocknaharna),
Black with grief is Crocknaharna
Twenty hundred miles away.



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