The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore Collected by Himself. In Ten Volumes |
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“Who comes so gracefully
“Gliding along,
“While the blue rivulet
“Sleeps to her song;
“Song, richly vying
“With the faint sighing
“Which swans, in dying,
“Sweetly prolong?”
“Gliding along,
“While the blue rivulet
“Sleeps to her song;
“Song, richly vying
“With the faint sighing
“Which swans, in dying,
“Sweetly prolong?”
So sung the shepherd-boy
By the stream's side,
Watching that fairy boat
Down the flood glide,
Like a bird winging,
Through the waves bringing
That Syren, singing
To the hush'd tide.
By the stream's side,
Watching that fairy boat
Down the flood glide,
Like a bird winging,
Through the waves bringing
That Syren, singing
To the hush'd tide.
“Stay,” said the shepherd-boy,
“Fairy-boat, stay,
“Linger, sweet minstrelsy,
“Linger, a day.”
But vain his pleading,
Past him, unheeding,
Song and boat, speeding,
Glided away.
“Fairy-boat, stay,
“Linger, sweet minstrelsy,
“Linger, a day.”
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Past him, unheeding,
Song and boat, speeding,
Glided away.
So to our youthful eyes
Joy and hope shone;
So, while we gazed on them,
Fast they flew on;—
Like flowers, declining
Ev'n in the twining,
One moment shining,
And, the next, gone!
Joy and hope shone;
So, while we gazed on them,
Fast they flew on;—
Like flowers, declining
Ev'n in the twining,
One moment shining,
And, the next, gone!
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