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Short Title Syren, 1818 
Title Syren, The 
Pages 216 
Publisher Cooper, W. 
Location RPB HARRIS Songster Coll S9953 1818 
Date 1818 
Place Washington 
Data Place RPB S9953 1818 
Comments Includes 2 separate songsters, The Syren, 122 pages, 116 songs ; and Irish Melodies, by Thomas Moore, 94 pages, 74 songs. Sections numbered editorially I.xx and II.xx. 
First Line Page Verses
OH! say, can you see, by the dawn's early light (fl)  I.3-I.5 
To Columbia's enraptur'd sight (fl)  I.5-I.6 
Sea was calm, the sky serene, The (fl)  I.6-I.7 
Upon the sea-girt rocky shore (fl)  I.7-I.8 
Let him who sighs in sadness here (fl)  I.9 
Columbia d' ye see's like a tough man of war (fl)  I.10-I.11 
Our bugles had sung, for the night-cloud had lower'd (fl)  I.11-I.12 
Where shall the lover rest (fl)  I.13-I.14 
Young love liv'd once in a humble shed (fl)  I.14-I.15 
How sweet are the flowers that grow by yon fountain (fl)  I.15 
My merry gentle people (fl)  I.16-I.17 
He is gone on the mountain (fl)  I.17-I.18 
Summer eve is gone and past (fl)  I.18-I.19 
O Lady, twine no wreath for me (fl)  I.19-I.20 
Ah say, Lovely Emma! a look can express it (fl)  I.21 
White sail caught the ev'ning ray, The (fl)  I.21-I.22 
By the side of a mountain o'ershadow'd with trees (fl)  I.22-I.23 
Oh! yonder is the well known spot (fl)  I.23-I.24 
When first I told my Rosa I lov'd (fl)  I.24-I.25 
As soon as I got married, a happy man to be (fl)  I.25-I.27 
When I rov'd, a young highlander, o'er the dark heath (fl)  I.27-I.29 
Merrily ev'ry bosom boundeth (fl)  I.29-I.30 
Deep in a vale a cottage stood (fl)  I.31 
Little Cupid one day o'er a myrtle bough stray'd (fl)  I.32 
And said I that my limbs were old (fl)  I.32-I.33 
Oh! Lady fair, where art thou roamimg (fl)  I.33-I.34  10 
Oh! stay sweet fair, till day is breaking (fl)  I.34-I.35  10 
Stranger! 'tis folly to check the fond tear (fl)  I.36 
Away, ye gay landscapes, ye gardens of roses (fl)  I.36-I.37 
Hark! where martial music sounding far (fl)  I.37-I.38 
Soft as yon silver ray, that sleeps (fl)  I.38 
Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle (fl)  I.39 
I married a wife, "who cares" says I (fl)  I.40-I.41 
I knew by the smoke that so gracefully curl'd (fl)  I.41 
Why does azure deck the sky (fl)  I.42 
Cheerful as the bird of May (fl)  I.42-I.43 
When time, who steals our years away (fl)  I.43-I.44 
If love, as they say, be the solace of youth (fl)  I.44-I.45 
When freshly blows the northern gale (fl)  I.45-I.46 
Faintly as tolls the ev'ning chime (fl)  I.46-I.47 
Scene was more beautiful far to my eye, The (fl)  I.47-I.48 
Let Fame sound the trumpet and cry to the war (fl)  I.48 
I wander'd once at break of day (fl)  I.49 
When Steerwell heard me first impart (fl)  I.50-I.51 
Friend of my Soul! this goblet sip (fl)  I.51 
To a shady retreat fair Eliza I trac'd (fl)  I.52 
Tho' the muses ne'er smile by the light of the sun (fl)  I.52-I.53 
Come tell me blue ey'd stranger (fl)  I.53 
I met my Laddie late yestreen (fl)  I.54   
Flowers are fresh and bushes green (fl)  I.54-I.55   
Says Ella to her love, remember (fl)  I.55 
Love in thine eyes for ever plays (fl)  I.56 
Sun has gane down o'er the lofty Benlomond, The (fl)  I.56-I.57 
Oh fair rose the morning, the sun in mild splendour (fl)  I.57-I.58 
'Twas at the town of nate Clogheen (fl)  I.58-I.60 
O, young Lochinvar is come out of the west (fl)  I.61-I.63 
Glasses sparkle on the board, The (fl)  I.63-I.64 
Fair Sally, once the village pride (fl)  I.64-I.65 
In the downhill of life when I find I'm declining (fl)  I.65-I.66 
Deserted by the waning moon (fl)  I.66-I.67 
Let others breathe the melting sigh (fl)  I.67 
Begone, dull care (fl)  I.68 
Drink to me only with thine eyes (fl)  I.68-I.69 
Away with melancholy (fl)  I.69-I.70 
Life let us cherish (fl)  I.70-I.71 
Alone to the banks of the dark rolling Danube (fl)  I.71-I.72 
Winds, whisper gently while she sleeps (fl)  I.72-I.73 
When shall we three meet again? (fl)  I.73-I.74 
Come, come, bonny lassie, cry'd Sandy, awa (fl)  I.74-I.75 
Love, my Mary, dwells with thee (fl)  I.75 
I have lov'd thee, dearly lov'd thee (fl)  I.75-I.76 
I sing the Maid of Lodi (fl)  I.76-I.77 
Just like love is yonder rose (fl)  I.77 
Yon lovely maid, with golden hair (fl)  I.78 
Oh! Lady, why thus sadly gaze (fl)  I.78-I.79 
Far retired from noise and smoke (fl)  I.79-I.80 
Sweet is the ship that under sail (fl)  I.80-I.82 
Shadows of eve 'gan to steal o'er the plain, The (fl)  I.82 
Young Allan rode slowly across the green heath (fl)  I.82-I.83 
Whether sailor or not, for a moment, avast! (fl)  I.83-I.84 
All in the Downs the fleet was moor'd (fl)  I.85-I.86 
Rose had been wash'd, just wash'd in a shower, The (fl)  I.86-I.87 
Said a smile to a tear (fl)  I.87-I.88 
Tear fell gently from her eye, The (fl)  I.88 
Tho' far beyond the mountains that look so distant here (fl)  I.89-I.90 
Hark! the goddess Diana calls out for the chase (fl)  I.90 
How sweet in the woodlands, with fleet hound and horn (fl)  I.90-I.91 
Here awa, there awa, wandering Willie (fl)  I.91 
From thee, Eliza, I must, go (fl)  I.92 
Ah! why did I gather this delicate flower (fl)  I.92-I.93 
When day has smiled a soft farewell (fl)  I.93-I.94 
Ah! sigh not for love, if you wish not to know (fl)  I.94 
Sly Cupid one day made a little bit of blund'ring (fl)  I.95-I.96 
There came to the beach a poor exile of Erin (fl)  I.96-I.97 
Turn those eyes on me, my love (fl)  I.98   
Soldier slumb'ring after war, The (fl)  I.98-I.99 
When the midnight of absence the day scene pervading (fl)  I.99-I.100 
Blessing unknown to ambition and pride, A (fl)  I.100 
Love, grieving, sat weaving (fl)  I.101 
If not with you I'm blest (fl)  I.101 
Wilt thou say farewell, love (fl)  I.102 
I cannot say farewell, love (fl)  I.102-I.103 
She walks in beauty, like the night (fl)  I.103-I.104 
Say, shall the minstrel's artless theme (fl)  I.104 
By the side of a willow, weeping (fl)  I.105 
Ye banks and braes, and streams around (fl)  I.105-I.106 
Twins of Latona, so kind to my boon, The (fl)  I.106-I.107 
Bright Chanticleer proclaims the dawn (fl)  I.107-I.108 
While dreaming night soothes other eyes with rest (fl)  I.108-I.109 
Does the harp of Rosa slumber (fl)  I.109-I.110 
There's a bower of roses, by Bendemeer's stream (fl)  I.110-I.111 
Fly to the desert, fly with me (fl)  I.111 
From life without freedom, Oh! who would not fly? (fl)  I.112 
Here's the bow'r she lov'd so much (fl)  I.112-I.13 
Ye banks and braes of bonie Doon [sic] (fl)  I.113 
Cease, rude Boreas, blust'ring railer! (fl)  I.114-I.116 
Go where glory waits thee (fl)  II.3-II.4 
Remember the glories of Brien the brave (fl)  II.4-II.5 
Erin! the tear and the smile in thine eyes (fl)  II.6 
Harp that once though Tara's halls, The (fl)  II.6-II.7 
Oh! breathe not his name, let it sleep in the shade (fl)  II.7 
When he who adores thee, has left behind but the name (fl)  II.8 
Fly not yet, 'tis just the hour (fl)  II.8-II.9 
Oh! think not my spirits are always as light (fl)  II.9-II.10 
Though the last glimpse of Erin with sorrow I see (fl)  II.11 
Rich and rare were the gems she wore (fl)  II.12-II.13 
As a beam o'er the face of the waters may glow (fl)  II.13 
There is not in the wide world a valley so sweet (fl)  II.14 
[Oh, haste and leave this sacred isle] (fl)  II.15 
Take back the virgin page (fl)  II.16-II.17 
How dear to me the hour when day-light dies (fl)  II.17 
When in death I shall calm recline (fl)  II.18 
How oft has the Benshee cried (fl)  II.19-II.20 
We may roam through this world, like a child at a feast (fl)  II.20-II.21 
Oh, weep for the hour (fl)  II.21-II.22 
Let Erin remember the days of old (fl)  II.22-II.24 
Silent, oh Moyle! be the roar of thy water (fl)  II.24-II.25 
Come send round the wine, and leave points of belief (fl)  II.25-II.26 
Sublime was the warning which liberty spoke (fl)  II.26-II.27 
Believe me, if all those endearing young charms (fl)  II.27-II.28 
Like the bright lamp that lay in Kildare's shrine (fl)  II.28-II.29 
Drink to her, who long (fl)  II.29-II.30 
Oh! blame not the bard if he fly to the bow'rs (fl)  II.31-II.32 
While gazing on the moon's light (fl)  II.33-II.34 
When day-light was yet sleeping under the billow (fl)  II.34-II.35 
By the hope within us springing (fl)  II.36-II.37 
Night clos'd around the conqueror's way (fl)  II.37 
Oh! 'tis sweet to think, that where e'er we rove (fl)  II.38-II.39 
Through grief and through danger, thy smile hath cheer'd my way (fl)  II.39-II.40 
When through life unblest we rove (fl)  II.40-II.41 
It is not the tear at this moment shed (fl)  II.41-II.42 
'Tis believ'd that this Harp which I now wake for thee (fl)  II.42-II.43 
Oh! the days are gone, when beauty bright (fl)  II.43-II.44 
Though dark are our sorrows, to-day we'll forget them (fl)  II.45-II.46 
Weep on, weep on, your hour is past (fl)  II.46-II.47 
Lesbia hath a beaming eye (fl)  II.47-II.49 
I saw thy form in youthful prime (fl)  II.49-II.50 
She is far from the land, where her young hero sleeps (fl)  II.50 
By that lake, whose gloomy shore (fl)  II.51-II.52 
Nay, tell me not, dear! that the goblet drowns (fl)  II.52-II.53 
Avenging and bright fell the swift sword of Erin (fl)  II.54-II.55 
What the bee is to the flow'ret (fl)  II.56-II.57 
Here we dwell in holiest bowers (fl)  II.57-II.58 
This life is all chequered with pleasures and woes (fl)  II.58-II.59 
Through Erin's Isle (fl)  II.59-II.60 
At the mid hour of night, when stars are weeping, I fly (fl)  II.60-II.61 
'Tis the last rose of summer (fl)  II.61-II.62 
One bumper at parting...though many (fl)  II.62-II.63 
Young May moon is beaming, love, The (fl)  II.64 
Minstrel-boy to the war is gone, The (fl)  II.64-II.65 
Valley lay smiling before me, The (fl)  II.65-II.67 
Oh! we had some bright little isle of our own (fl)  II.67-II.68 
Farewell! but whenever you welcome the hour (fl)  II.68-II.69 
Oh! doubt me not...the season (fl)  II.69-II.70 
You remember Ellen, our hamlet's pride (fl)  II.70-II.71 
I'd mourn the hopes that leave me (fl)  II.71-II.72 
Come o'er the sea (fl)  II.73-II.74 
Has sorrow thy young days shaded (fl)  II.74-II.75 
No, not more welcome the fairy numbers (fl)  II.76 
When first I met thee, warm and young (fl)  II.76-II.78 
While History's Muse the memorial was keeping (fl)  II.78-II.79 
Time I've lost in wooing, The (fl)  II.79-II.80 
Oh! where's the slave so lowly (fl)  II.81 
Come, rest in this bosom, my own stricken deer (fl)  II.82 
'Tis gone, and for ever, the light we saw breaking (fl)  II.82-II.83 
I saw from the beach, when the morning was shining (fl)  II.84 
Fill the bumper fair! (fl)  II.85-II.86 
Dear Harp of my country! in darkness I found thee (fl)  II.87-II.88 
Chieftain to the highlands bound, A (fl)  II.89-II.91 
Too late I staid, forgive the crime (fl)  II.91-II.92 
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