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Poems

By Edward Quillinan. With a Memoir by William Johnston

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TO A YOUNG LADY, WHO RESIDED BETWEEN THE RIVERS LEE AND BRIDE, NEAR CORK.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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TO A YOUNG LADY, WHO RESIDED BETWEEN THE RIVERS LEE AND BRIDE, NEAR CORK.

A river by thy bower is flowing,
Lady of the Lee!
Tell me, maiden, is he going
Lonely to the sea?
Lovely lady, not alone,
For soon the Bride will be his own.

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Below thy sire's abode, behold,
The gentle Bride has join'd the Lee,
Till now alone, and pure, and cold,
The Bride was but a type of thee:
Lovely lady, who is he
Whose symbol is the wedded Lee?
For him life's stream will fairly glide!
And joy be his, whoe'er he be!
So farewell now the Lee and Bride,
Whose flowery banks are not for me:
Banks there are as fair to see,
But where's the nymph like her of Lee?