Through this world, whether eastward or west ward you roam, When a cupto the smile of dear woman goes round. Oh! remember the smile which adorns her at home. In England the garden of beauty is kept When a cup to the smile of dear woman goes round, home. n France, when the heart of a woman sets sail, On the ocean of wedlock its fortune to try, love seldom goes far in a vessel so frail, But just pilots her off, and then bids her goodbye! While the daughters of Erin keep the boy Ever smiling beside his faithful oar, Through billows of woe, and beams of joy, The same as he look'd when he left the shore. Then remember, wherever your goblet is crown'd, Through this world whether eastward or westward you roam, When a cup to the smile of dear woman goes round, Oh! remember the smile which adorns her at home. EVELEEN'S BOWER. Он! OH! WEEP FOR THE HOUR. AIR-Unknown. I OH! weep for the hour, When to Eveleen's bower, The Lord of the Valley with false vows came. Our claim to this air has been disputed; but they who are best acquainted with national melodies pronounce I to be Irish. It is generally known by the name of «The Iretty Girl of Derby, O!» The Moon hid her light From the Heavens that night, And wept behind her clouds o'er the maiden's shame : The clouds past soon From the chaste cold Moon, And Heaven smiled again with her vestal flame; But none will see the day When the clouds shall pass away, Which that dark hour left upon Eveleen's fame. The white snow lay On the narrow path-way Where the Lord of the Valley cross'd over the n oor; And many a deep print On the white snow's tint Shew'd the track of his footstep to Eveleen's door. The next sun's ray Soon melted away Ev'ry trace on the path where the false lord came; But there's a light above, Which alone can remove That stain upon the snow of Eveleen's fame. IRISH MELODIES. LET ERIN REMEMBER THE DAYS OF OLD. AIR-The Red Fox LET Erin remember the days or old, Vhen her kings with standard of green unfurl'd, I This brought on an encounter between Malachi (the monarch of Ireland in the 10th century) and the Danes, in which Malachi defeated two of their champions, whom he encountered successively, hand to hand, taking a collar of gold from the neck of one, and carrying off the sword of the other, as trophies of his victory.» Warner's History of Ireland, vol. i, book 9. 2 « Military orders of knights were very early estáblished in Ireland: long before the birth of Christ we find an hereditary order of chivalry in Ulster, called Zuraidhe na Craoibhe ruadh, or the Knights of the Red On Lough Neagh's bank as the fisherman strays, When the clear cold eve's declining, He sees the round towers of other days Thus shall Memory often in dreams sublime, Branch; from their chief seat in Emania, adjoining to the Palace of the Craoibhe ruadh, or the Ulster kings, called Teagh na and contiguous to which was a large hospital, founded for the sick knights and soldiers, called Bron-bheargı or the House of the Sorrowful Soldier. » O'Halloran's Introduction, etc. part. i, chap. 5. It was an old tradition in the time of Giraldus,, that Lough Neagh had been originally a fountain, by whose sudden overflowing the country was inundated, and a whole region, like the Atlantis of Plato, overwhelmed. He says, that fishermen, in clear weather, used to point out to strangers the tall ecclesiastical towers under water:-« Piscatores aquæ illius turres ecclesiasti cas quæ more patriæ arctæ sunt et altæ necnon et rotundæ, sub undis manifeste, sereno tempore conspiciunt et extraneis transeuntibus reique causas admirantibus frequenter ostendunt. » Topogr. Hib. Dist. 2, c. g |