Solemn Blue

song lyric

I followed into a shaded hollow the glittering Owenkillew.
But there it seems it forever tarried in pools of solemn blue.
[Everybody:] In pools of solemn blue.
In pools of solemn blue.
There it seems it forever tarried in pools of solemn blue.

There it seems it forever tarried where moss and snowdrop did grow.
And there I thought of my love for Una, a love she never will know.
[Everybody:] A love she never will know.
A love she never will know.
There I thought of my love for Una, a love she never will know.

There I thought of my love for Una, a long, lost season before,
When all her body and soul she gave to a soldier leaving for war.
[Everybody:] A soldier leaving for war.
A soldier leaving for war.
All her body and soul she gave to a soldier leaving for war.

With all her body and soul she waited till each was torn in two.
And, once so bright, now her eyes are shaded, like pools of solemn blue.
[Everybody:] Like pools of solemn blue.
Like pools of solemn blue.
Once so bright, now her eyes are shaded, like pools of solemn blue.

Once so bright, now her eyes are shaded; but one thing brightens them still:
When I sit with her each time she needs me. With God my courage, I will.
[Everybody:] With God my courage, I will.
With God my courage, I will.
I sit with her each time she needs me. With God my courage, I will.

I sit with her each time she needs me. And with all that I can contrive
I lie so Una will face tomorrow, and say I know he’s alive.
[Everybody:] I say I know he’s alive.
I say I know he’s alive.
I lie so Una will face tomorrow, and say I know he’s alive.

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