Nancy Walsh

IT is not on her gown
She fears no tread ;
It is her hair
Which tumbles down
And strays
About her ways
That she must care.

And she lives nigh this place :
The dead would rise
If they could see her face ;
The dead would rise
Only to hear her sing :
But death is blind, and gives not ear nor eye
To anything.

We would leave behind
Both wife and child,
And house and home ;
And wander blind,
And wander thus,
And ever roam,
If she would come to us
In Erris.

Softly she said to me —
Be patient will the night comes,
And I will go with thee.