Hunter In The Wild

I strung my bow and honed my knife
With baying hounds I went into the wild
Oisin is my name - I am of the Fianna
On the shores of Lough Leane I fell ofor Niamh.

She was "Would you ride with me?"
"Aye, let us away my love!" I replied
Through icy lakes and mystic paths
Into the otherworld, where the Danann reign.

The creek by the road sings
At my going by -
These lands they have known me
As a hunter in the wild.

Mortal years spent in bliss ten score at least
The dance of the Sidhe, the wine of her lips
Kept me spellbound to the undying lands
Never once thinking of what I left behind.

Then one day, delight turned into yearning
To see the hills that frame my beloved Killarney
She said "Goodbye my love, for you shall not return
To the sunlit lands where time is naught."

The creek by the road sings
At my going by
These lands they have known me
As a hunter in the wild.

Something in my died that day
Back from icy lakes and mystic paths
Back from the otherworld, where the Danann reign
I rode without looking back, blinded by tears a' laving.