For You This Birthday Ought to Be a Sun

Music: Tabhair dom do lamh.
By Rory Dall O'Caghan. Sequenced at the Ancient Music of Ireland.

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For you this birthday ought to be a sun Overriding all the other stars. Rarely have I seen a smile like yours, Touching hearts from Venus clear to Mars, Yet genuine, as if from pleasure spun.