The corn was springing fresh and green,
And the lark sang loud and high,
And the red was on your lip, Mary,
And the love-light in your eye.

Helen Blackwood, Baroness Dufferin and Claneboye, later Helen Selina Hay, Countess of Gifford, born Helen Selina Sheridan, (1807 – 13 June 1867), was a British song-writer, poet, and author. As well as being admired for her wit and literary talents, she was a fashionable beauty and a well-known figure in London society of the mid-19th century.

Quotes

Lament of the Irish Emigrant

Lament of the Irish Emigrant (c. 1860), reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

  • I'm sitting on the stile, Mary,
    Where we sat side by side.
  • The corn was springing fresh and green,
    And the lark sang loud and high,
    And the red was on your lip, Mary,
    And the love-light in your eye.
  • I'm very lonely now, Mary,
    For the poor make no new friends;
    But oh they love the better still
    The few our Father sends!
  • I'm bidding you a long farewell,
    My Mary, kind and true,
    But I'll not forget you, darling,
    In the land I'm going to.
    They say there's bread and work for all,
    And the sun shines always there;
    But I'll not forget old Ireland,
    Were it fifty times as fair.
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