When, like the dawning day,
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Love sends his early ray,
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What makes his dawning glow
Changeless through joy and woe
Only the constant know,
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Were she no longer true,
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What would her lover do,
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Fly with a broken chain, 
Far o'er the bounding main
Never to love again,
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Youth must in time decay,
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Beauty must fade away,
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Castles are sacked in war
Chieftains are scattered far
Truth is a fixed star,
Eileen Aroon.

I know a valley fair,
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I know a cottage there,
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Far in the valley shade
I know a tender maid
Flow'r of the hazel glade,
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Who in the song so sweet,
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Who in the dance so fleet,
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Dear are her charms to me,
Dearer her laughter free
Dearest her constancy,
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Were she no longer true,
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What would her lover do,
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Fly with a broken chain,
Far o'er the sounding main
Never to love again,
Eileen Aroon

Youth will in time decay,
Eileen Aroon
Beauty must fade away,
Eileen Aroon
Castles are sacked in war,
Chieftains are scattered far
Truth is a fixed star,
Eileen Aroon