•The ro THE MACMILLAN COMPANY MACMILLAN & CO., LIMITED MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, LTD. TORONTO Songs of the Glens of Antrim and BY MOIRA O'NEILL TWO VOLUMES IN ONE New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1922 All rights reserved PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA hibh 12138 COPYRIGHT, 1921 AND 1922, BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. Set up and printed. Published February, 1922. Press of J. J. Little & Ives Company New York, U. S. A. ΤΟ W. C. S. There' a house upon the sea-sand, a white house an' low, The gulls are flyin' over it, the red roses blow. By night the waves are breakin', an' the moon is on the sea; Sure all that I love are there, all that love me, Only one. There' a house upon the prairie in the lone North-West, In the flowery, silent summer, on a green hill's breast; Where mountains stretch across the sky the world's end must be, An' none that I love are there, none that love me, Only one. I dreamt of gentle Ireland beneath the Northern Light, The waves that broke on Ireland were callin' me by night; Till back across the salt sea, back against the sun I took the way the birds know, an' woke in CushenNot with you. dun, Oh, what about the roses then, an' what about the strand! west, Back to you. |