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MARY LAGHACH

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From the Gaelic, by Professor Blackie

           Ho! my bonnie Mary,

           My dainty love, my queen,

           The fairest, rarest Mary

           On earth was ever seen!

           Ho! my queenly Mary,

           Who made me king of men,

           To call thee mine own Mary,

           Born in the bonnie glen.


Young was I and Mary,

In the windings of Glensmoil,

When came that imp of Venus

And caught us with his wile;

And pierced us with his arrows,

That we thrilled in every pore,

And loved as mortals never loved

On this green earth before.


                                 Ho! my bonnie Mary, &c.


Oft times myself and Mary

Strayed up the bonnie glen,

Our hearts as pure and innocent

As little children then;

Boy Cupid finely taught us

To dally and to toy,

When the shade fell from the green tree,

And the sun was in the sky.


                                 Ho! my bonnie Mary, &c.


If all the wealth of Albyn

Were mine, and treasures rare,

What boots all gold and silver

If sweet love be not there?

More dear to me than rubies

In deepest veins that shine,

Is one kiss from the lovely lips

That rightly I call mine.


                                 Ho! my bonnie Mary, &c.


Thy bosom's heaving whiteness

With beauty overbrims,

Like swan upon the waters

When gentliest it swims;

Like cotton on the moorland

Thy skin is soft and fine,

Thy neck is like the sea-gul

When dipping in the brine.


                                 Ho! my bonnie Mary, &c.


The locks about thy dainty ears

Do richly curl and twine;

Dame Nature rarely grew a wealth

Of ringlets like to thine:

There needs no hand of hireling

To twist and plait thy hair,

But where it grew it winds and falls

In wavy beauty there.


                                 Ho! my bonnie Mary, &c.


Like snow upon the mountains

Thy teeth are pure and white;

Thy breath is like the cinnamon,

Thy mouth buds with delight.

Thy cheeks are like the cherries,

Thine eyelids soft and fair,

And smooth thy brow, untaught to frown,


The Celtic Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1, November 1875

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