Miss Fetherston or "Carolan's devotion" : Carolan met this young lady
on his way to church in Granard, and later, at Mass, "instead of
praying for Miss Fetherston, as she requested, he neglected his
religious duties to compose a song on her". It is said to be the only
song for which Carolan composed words in English.
On a fair Suday morning devoted to be
Poco Andanate
Attentive to a sermon that was ordered for me,
I met a fresh rose on the road by decree,
And though Mass was my notion, my devotion was she.
Welcome, fair lily, white and red,
Welcome was every word we said;
Welcome, bright angel of noble degree,
I wish you would love, and that I were with thre.
I pray don't frown at me with mouth or with eye --
So I told the fair maiden, with heart full of glee,
Though the Mass was my notion, my devotion was she.
Thanks to Donal O'Sullivan for his permission to use these notations
Filleadh go liosta Cearbhalláin
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