 | Denis Florence MacCarthy - 1846 - 554 pages
...o'er, That the net and the arrow aside must be laid, For hammer and trowel, and mattock and spade ; That the echoes of music must sleep in their caves,...And our bleeding hands toil in the dew of our tears. Oh sweetheart and comfort ! with thee by my side, I could love and live happy, whatever betide ; But... | |
 | Irish ballads - 1846 - 260 pages
...o'er, That the net and the arrow aside must be laid, For hammer and trowel, and mattock and spade ; That the echoes of music must sleep in their caves,...And our bleeding hands toil in the dew of our tears. Oh sweetheart and comfort ! with thee by my side, I could love and live happy, whatever betide ; But... | |
 | Edward Hayes (collector of ballads) - 1856 - 442 pages
...o'er, That the net and the arrow aside must be laid, For hammer and trowel, and mattock and spade ; That the echoes of music must sleep in their caves,...And our bleeding hands toil in the dew of our tears. Oh, sweetheart and comfort ! with thee by my side, I could love and live happy, whatever betide ; But... | |
 | Edward Hayes - 1856 - 396 pages
...o'er, That the net and the arrow aside must be laid, For hammer and trowel, and mattock and spade : That the echoes of music must sleep in their caves,...And our bleeding hands toil in the dew of our tears. O, sweetheart and comfort ! with thee by my side, I could love and live happy, whatever betide ; But... | |
 | Samuel Ferguson - 1888 - 226 pages
...For hammer and trowel, and mattock and spade ; That the echoes of music must sleep in their cavns, That the slave must forget his own tongue for a slave's, That the sounds of our lips must be strange in onr ears, And our bleeding hands toil in the dow of our tears. Oh sweetheart and comfort ! with thee... | |
 | Justin McCarthy, Maurice Francis Egan, Charles Welsh, Douglas Hyde, Lady Gregory, James Jeffrey Roche - 1904 - 538 pages
...o'er, That the net and the arrow aside must be laid, For hammer and trowel, and mattock and spade. That the echoes of music must sleep in their caves,...must forget his own tongue for a slave's, That the sound of our lips must be strange in our ears, And our bleeding hands toil in the dew of our tears.... | |
 | Charles Welsh - 1907 - 528 pages
...o'er, That the net and the arrow aside must be laid, For hammer and trowel, and mattock and spade. That the echoes of music must sleep in their caves,...must forget his own tongue for a slave's, That the sound of our lips must be strange in our ears, And our bleeding hands toil in the dew of our tears.... | |
 | Charles Welsh - 1907 - 1184 pages
...For hammer and trowel, and mattock and spade. That the echoes of music must sleep in their ca»es, That the slave must forget his own tongue for a slave's, That the sound of our lips must be strange in our ears, And our bleeding hands toil in the dew of our tears.... | |
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That all our youth's tresses of yellow be shorn, And bonnets, instead, of a new fashion, worn ; That mantles like Owen Bawn's shield us no more, That hunting and fishing henceforth we give o'er, That the net and the arrow aside must be laid, For hammer... 