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HUSHING SONG by WILLIAM SHARP

First Line: EILIDH, EILIDH / MY BONNY WEE LASS
Last Line: HERE ON MY HEART!
Subject(s): COMFORT; DEATH; GRIEF; MOTHERS & DAUGHTERS; SINGING & SINGERS; DEAD, THE; SORROW; SADNESS; SONGS;

Eilidh, Eilidh,
My bonnie wee lass:
The winds blow,
And the hours pass.

But never a wind
Can do thee wrong,
Brown Birdeen, singing
Thy bird-heart song.

And never an hour
But has for thee
Blue of the heaven
And green of the sea:

Blue for the hope of thee,
Eilidh, Eilidh;
Green for the joy of thee,
Eilidh, Eilidh.

Swing in thy nest, then,
Here on my heart,
Birdeen, Birdeen,
Here on my heart,
Here on my heart!



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