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EAMONN AN CHNUIC, by                    
First Line: Now who is without
Last Line: Where strangers are kinder than kin!
Subject(s): Country Life


"Now who is without
With a heart-piercing shout
Beating my bolted door?"
"I am Ned of the Hill,
Wet, weary and chill
From long walking the mountain-side o'er."

"Oh, bright love and dear,
What could I do here
But cover you up with my gown?
While shots thick and true
They rained upon you,
Till together in death we went down!"

"Not a comrade I know,
As I desolate go
Out under the snow and the frost;
My team loose from the yoke,
My fallows unbroke,
My land to be evermore lost."

"Not a friend have I got--
I am heavy for that--
Late or early to take Eamonn in;
And so I must flee
East over the sea,
Where strangers are kinder than kin!"





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