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‘Cross the faces of the tower<br />
Hands too quickly push the hour;<br />
Forces of the mundane glower<br />
Just outside the safe old gate —<br />
Soon enough comes tedious fate<br />
All too great in power.<br />
Temper classtime oft with pastime;<br />
Revel now while we are young!<br />
So much thinking wants more drinking<br />
Ere the final bell be rung.<br />
The <strong>Kates</strong>’ Drinking <strong>Song</strong><br />
Siobhan ni hEodhusa<br />
Clever, graceful turns of phrases,<br />
Dissertations of the sages,<br />
And the hand that turns the pages,<br />
Time shall turn them all to dust.<br />
Strive to turn him though we must,<br />
Chronos tithes our wages.<br />
Temper classtime...<br />
Seize the chance before it passes,<br />
Ere your life be lost in classes —<br />
Seize your partners, lads and lasses,<br />
While there’s music, shake a leg!<br />
Time to tap another keg —<br />
Scholars, charge your glasses!<br />
Temper classtime...<br />
The hawk soars high o’er yonder hill<br />
The stag bells in the glen<br />
The whale chants wild in water’s chill<br />
The bear dreams in her den<br />
They call me to return again<br />
They set me on my way<br />
Chorus:<br />
Where the twilight seals the day,<br />
To the West, to the West,<br />
I am summoned as the dreamers come before<br />
With my wounds all healed away,<br />
Like the sun I will rest<br />
Where my vision leads,<br />
Along the Western shore.<br />
To The West<br />
Siobhan ni hEodhusa<br />
Chorus<br />
My eyes shall see my fortune clear<br />
My tongue shall rightly tell<br />
My heart shall hold my dreaming dear<br />
My hands shall build it well<br />
The land they sought, where now we dwell<br />
Is ever on the way<br />
Chorus<br />
(C) Leigh Ann Hussey, 1992<br />
I’ll bless the bonny ship that brings<br />
Me leave and liberty<br />
To wend the ways of saints and kings<br />
And souls across the sea<br />
I’ll seek the voice that sings to me<br />
And calls me on my way<br />
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