 | Ballads of Irish chivalry |  |
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MY HEART IS WILD.
I
My heart is wild with the love I bearFor my maiden mild of the yellow hair,
Of the yellow hair and the low, fond sighs,
Of the form so fair and the star-bright eyes.
II
I know a tree in a distant glade,And it mindeth me of my own dear maid;
Where'er I strayed was no fairer tree,
No fairer maid than my love to me.
III
In a fairy dell by the moorland heightI know a well, calm, pure, and bright:
In its waves of light the sunbeams play,
Like the glances bright of my lovely May.
IV
By the gentle hill, and gray rock piled,Leaps down that rill like a gladsome child—
Oh! my heart's as wild with the love I bear
For my maiden mild of the yellow hair.
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