Amidst the Barley Field
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but the gentle wind took her song
and swept it out to sea
and every boat that h...
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Evyenoula
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and boastfully was wont to say that Charon would not get her
becau...
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I'd Have Come Last Night
I’d have come last night to see you,
amán, amán, amán, but I was caught out in a shower.
Then a heavy downpour soaked me,
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In a Fine Orchard
In a fine orchard, laurel and myrtle quarrel.
And myrtle, amàn-amàn, myrtle says to laurel…
And myrtle says to laurel, -You...
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It Is the Custom Every Year
It is the custom every year to mark these days and weeks
with dances for young swains and maids that mothers may rejoice.
S...
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May Is Come
May is come and bids me reap but for his sake
I shall not go and darken in the sun.
May, dear May with the flowers
and s...
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The Boastful Partridge
A partridge fair bragged to all she met
that there was no hunter in the land,
no hunter in the land could bag her.
When th...
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The Swing
The girl is sitting on the swing, no dove was ever prettier,
spreads and flaps her pure white wings, and fans the air around...
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With Child A-Mowing
The Maid and the Partridge
A girl was mowing in a field of wheat
mowing with a child in her belly,
and as she baled she birthed
a golden eagle down o...
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You Quench Your Thirst... O Sea
You quench your thirst from every source, o sea, from every river,
and spare us not a single one of our most manly menfolk.
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