Unknown - Eileen Aroon Lyrics

EILEEN AROON

When, like the dawning day
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Love sends his early ray
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What makes his dawning glow
Changeless through joy and woe
Only the constant know
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Were she no longer true
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What would her lover do
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Fly with a broken chain
Far o'er the bounding main
Never to love again
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Youth must in time decay
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Beauty must fade away
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Castles are sacked in war
Chieftains are scattered far
Truth is a fixed star
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words translated by Gerald Griffin (1803-1840)
from the Irish of Carrol O'Daly (14th Century)