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The Lady of the HouseAuthor(s): Gerald DaweSource: New Hibernia Review / Iris Éireannach Nua, Vol. 10, No. 3 (Autumn, 2006), p. 44Published by: University of St. Thomas (Center for Irish Studies)Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20558080 .

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Fil?ocht Nua: New Poetry

THE LADY OF THE HOUSE

The birds are singing high in the trees.

Come back, my love, or never come.

The birds are singing high in the trees.

Summer is over now; autumn has come.

But the leaves haven't fallen yet

and all the trees are still green.

Come back, my love, or never come.

The birds were singing high in the trees.

I couldn't tell where. Come hack, my love,

or never come. I couldn't tell where.

The lake was so still that day the birds stopped dancing in the sky.

The shadow of the forest stayed

across the lake all day.

Come back, my love, or never come.

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