ON THE SHORES OF SWEET LOCH LEIN.

ON THE SHORES OF SWEET LOCH LEIN.

By Killarney’s lakes a wonder awakes

Like a morning after snow

When children’s eyes

light up the skies

With an effervescence glow

As the dancing hooves of horses

Tap through on a green-lush-lane

And plays a jig to the dancing strands

Upon the horses mane

And the Jarvey tells a story

As he pulls upon the rein

Of the magic and the wonder

On the Shores of sweet Loch Lein.

Muckross House with Gardens Fair

Where man and God has met

To Create a scene so beautiful

Its not easy to forget

With Bluebells through the forest

Rhododendron on the lawn

And a kingfishers blue bolt

like a strike of light at dawn

Winter summer snow or rain

There’s a magic and a wonder

On the shores of sweet Loch Lein.

Here ferns like lace

Surround the place

And glisten with an amber gown

When dew-drops catch the golden light

when the sun is setting down

But the only treasures to be found 

Are the memories here to gain

Of the magic and the wonder

On the shores of sweet Loch Lein.

Diamond eyes, wink from the skies

As they shine from dusk ‘til dawn

And fill the Lake with starry lights

 Around the Colleen Bawn

And bugles in the distant hills 

Echo their sweet refrain

To the magic and the wonder

 On the shores of sweet Loch Lein.

Green-Leave-Shawls the waterfalls

On Torc and Tomies mountain

When a gushing stream suddenly stops

to become a crystal fountain

Where the silver salmon

Slip and slides

As it wanders back home again

To the magic and the wonder

On the shores of sweet Loch Lein.

The Eagles Nest he thinks is best

From April on to May

When the road fills up on either side

With a purple scented spray

As the trees they push their talons high

As they prey upon the air

And curtain off the scenery

that surrounds you everywhere

And now you wonder why you came

But you travelled not in vain

For you found the magic and the wonder

On the shores of sweet Loch Lein.

By Tim buckley