EILEEN AROON



When, like the dawning day

Eileen Aroon

Love sends his early ray

Eileen Aroon

What makes his dawning glow

Changeless through joy and woe

Only the constant know

Eileen Aroon



Were she no longer true

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What would her lover do

Eileen Aroon

Fly with a broken chain

Far o'er the bounding main

Never to love again

Eileen Aroon

Youth must in time decay

Eileen Aroon

Beauty must fade away

Eileen Aroon

Castles are sacked in war

Chieftains are scattered far

Truth is a fixed star

Eileen Aroon



words translated by Gerald Griffin (1803-1840)

from the Irish of Carrol O'Daly (14th Century)

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tune: Robin Adair by Lady Caroline Keppel

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