Monday, December 6, 2021

Down By the Salley Gardens

 by W. B. Yeats with a traditional Irish melody


Down by the Salley Gardens my love and I did meet

She passed the Salley Gardens with little snow-white feet

She bid me take love easy as the leaves grow on the tree

Ah but I, being young and foolish, with her did not agree


In a field by the river my love and I did stand

And on my leaning shoulder she laid her snow-white hand

She bid me take life easy as the grass grows on the wiers

Ah but I was young and foolish, and now am full of tears


She bid me take life easy as the grass grows on the wiers

Ah but I was young and foolish, and now am full of tears

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