HER HAIR WAS LIKE THE CROMLA MIST.

_Gaelic Air._

Her hair was like the Cromla mist,

When evening sun beams from the west,

Bright was the eye of Morna;

When beauty wept the warrior's fall,

Then low and dark was Fingal's hall,

Sad was the lovely Morna.

O! lovely was the blue-eyed maid

That sung peace to the warrior's shade,

But none so fair as Morna.

The hallow'd tears bedew'd the brake,

That waved beside dark Orna's lake,

Where wander'd lovely Morna.

Sad was the hoary minstrel's song,

That died the rustling heath among,

Where sat the lovely Morna;

It slumber'd on the placid wave,

It echoed through the warrior's cave,

And sigh'd again to Morna.

The hero's plumes were lowly laid;

In Fingal's hall each blue-eyed maid

Sang peace and rest to Morna;

The harp's wild strain was past and gone,

No more it whisper'd to the moan

Of lovely, dying Morna.

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