The Wild Irish Girl: A National TaleMorgan, Lady (Sydney)
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The Wild Irish Girl: A National Tale
Morgan, Lady (Sydney)
British -- Ireland -- Fiction; Celts -- Fiction; Ireland -- Fiction; Love stories; Princesses -- Fiction
By Cormac Kelly, under ground;
Who raised me up to that degree;
Queen of music they call me.”
“The above lines were sculptured on the old harp, which is
made, the sides and front of white sally, the back of fir,
patched with copper and iron plates, his daughter now
attending him is only thirty-three years old.
“I have now given you an account of my visit, and even thank
you (though my fingers are tired) for the pleasure you
procured to me by this interesting commission.
Once more ever yours,
C. Y. S.
In February, 1806, the author, being then but eighteen miles
distant from the residence of the bard, received a message
from him, intimating that as he heard she wished to purchase
his harp, he would dispose of it on very moderate terms. He
was then in good health and spirits though in his hundred
and ninth year.
Whenever there was a revel of the feelings, a joy of the imagination,
or a delicate fruition of a refined and touching sentiment, how my
soul misses her! I find it impossible to make even the amiable and
intelligent priest enter into the nature of my feelings; but how
naturally, in the overflowing of my heart, do I turn towards her, yet
turn in vain, or find her image only in my enamoured soul, which is full
of her. Oh! how much do I owe her. What a vigorous spring has she opened
in the wintry waste of a desolated mind. It seems as though a seal
had been fixed upon every bliss of the senses and the heart, which her
breath alone could dissolve; that all was gloom and chaos until she said
“let there be light.”
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