DESCRIPTION:
Joyce Ready, '30s - '40s majorette and accordianist for the Tournament of Roses and Rose Bowl Parades and my Mom, did teach me many dancing songs and lyrics while I was very young. My Mom did also first share her piano and accordian with me, cultivating gallant vivacity for these Irish and Celtic tunes, many that revert to times of the Crusades. The accordian originated in China, but by the time that words of E. Falconer (Edmund O'Rourke) were set to the music of Michael W. Balfe in the 19th century, Irish dance and marching music had long flourished. Due to Oliver Cromwell, however, as everyone knows, important records are lost about Irish culture; however, important motifs and tones here represent similar patterns both of gaiety and of perception.

Angels wing o'er lakes and fells,
Em'rald isles and winding bays,
Mountain paths, and woodland dells,
Mem'ry ever fondly strays;
Bounteous nature loves all lands;
Beauty wanders ev'rywhere,
Footprints, leaves on many strands,
For their home is surely there!
Angels fold their wings and rest
In that Eden of the west

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Beauty's home, Angels wing,
Eagles Nest, Killarney

Innisfallen's ruin'd shrine
May suggest a passing sign,
For man's faith can ne'er decline
Such God's wonders floating by;
Castle Lough and Glenna Bay,
Mountains Tore, and Eagles Nest;
Still at Mucross, you must pray
Though the monks are yet at rest.
Angels wonder not that man
There would fain prolong life's span
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No place else can charm the eye
With such bright and varied tints
Ev'ry rock that you pass by,
Verdure 'broiders or besprints;
Virgin there the green grass grows,
Ev'ry morn springs natal day,
Bright-hued berries daff the snows,
Smiling winter's frown away.
Angels often pausing there
Doubt of Eden were more fair
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Music there for Echo dwells
Makes each sound a harmony;
Many voiced the chorus swells
Till it faints in ecstasy;
With the charmful tints below,
Seems the heaven above to vie;
All rich colors that we know
Tinge the cloudwreaths in that sky
Wings of angels so might shine
Glancing back soft light divine
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