A Cradle Song (Colum)
O, men from the fields!
Come softly within.
Tread softly, softly,
O! men, coming in.
Mavourneen is going
From me and from you,
To Mary, the Mother,
Whose mantle is blue!
From reek of the smoke
And cold of the floor,
And peering of things
Across the half-door.
O men from the fields!
Soft, softly come thro'.
Mary puts round him
Her mantle of blue.
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