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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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