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(7) And do not leave me here to mourn

upon the Shannon-side.

said, My pretty damsel,

from murmur now refrain,

We’ll talk concerning marriage,

when I come back again;

do not let your spirits sink,

whate’er will you betide,

you see my face again,

Upon the Shannon-side.

We kiss'd, shook hands, and parted,

and from her I did steer;

did not come that way again,

for more than half a year:

over a pleasant lawn,

by chance my love I spy’d,

able for to walk her lone,

along the Shanhon-side.

seem’d to take no notice,

but kept along my way,

my love call'd out with all her might,

defiring me to stay;

words she spoke, as down her cheeks

the crystal tears did glide,

, Don’t forget the fall you gave,

down by the Shannon-side.

me it prov’d a woful fall,

for I’m with child to thee,

if you would seem satisfy’d,

kind Sir to marry me,