Here you will find the Poem Achill Girl's Song of poet Padraic Colum
FROM THE IRISH I?d bring you these for dowry A field from heather free, White sheep upon the mountain, And calves that follow me. I saw you by the well-side Upon Saint Finnian's Day; I thought you'd come and ask for me But you kept far away. Oh, if you ask not for me, But leave me here instead, The petticoat in dye-pot here Will never fast its red For me upon the well-slope To wear on Finnian's Day My dress will be the sheet bleached there, My place, below the clay!
