Douglas Hyde
Published: 2013-09
Total Pages: 32
Get eBook
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ...bosom. Thy name I shall rhyme thee in Irish, And heighten thy fame. Here is a sweet rann I found in another manuscript of mine, but like this song, there is more of a Munster flavour than of a Connacht flavour about it. And besides that, the word aishling (" weakness ") is not a Connacht term, and it is the Munstermen, too, who used especially to practise playing upon a word, as we see done here. I give the verse to show the difference there is between the old simple songs I have given already, and the newer ones of the Munstermen. 0 MAURYA, TAKE MY LOVE. O Maurya, take my love, love of my heart, thy love, Love without fear or failing; Love that knows not death, love that grows with breath, Love.'..at must shortly slay me; Love that heeds not wealth, love that breeds in stealth, Love that leaves me sorrowing daily; Love from my heart is thine, and such a love as mine Is found not twice--but found, is unfailing. Literally. "O Maurya, thou art my love, and the love of my heart thy love, A love that without pettiness, without weakness, Love from age till death, love from folly growing, Love that shall send me close beneath the clay. Love without a hope of the world, Love without envy of fortune, Love that left me withered in captivity. Love of my heart beyond women, and such a love as that, It is seldom to be got from any man. This play upon the word love is like that which the Mong'ir-yah Soogugh--Andrew MacGrath, from theiiCounty Limerick--made. He says, in a beautiful poem which he composed to the air of the "Colleen D'yas Crootyee na Mo: " Oh, love of my love, do not hate me, For love, I am aching for thee; And my love for my love I'll jorsake not, 0 love, till I fade like a tree. Since I gave thee my love I am...
