Where Lagan stream sing lullaby,
there blows a lily fair.
When twilight gleam is in her eyes,
the night is on her hair.
And like a love-sick lenanshee,
she hath my heart in thrall.
No life have I, no liberty
with love is lord of all.
And sometimes when the beetles horn
hath lulled the eve to sleep,
I steal unto her shieling low
and through her dooreen peep.
There on the cricket's singing stone
she stirs the bog wood fire
and hums in soft sweet undertones
the song of heart's desire.
Her welcome like her love for me
is from her heart within.
Her warm kiss is felicity
that knows no taint of sin.