The Snowy Breasted Pearl - The Wolfe Tones

There’s a colleen fair as May

For a year and for a day

I have sought by every way

Her heart to gain

There’s no art of tongue or eye

Fond youths with maidens try

But I’ve tried with ceaseless sigh

Yet tried in vain

If to France or far off Spain

She crossed the wat’ry main

To see her face again the seas I’d brave

And if it’s heaven’s decree

That mine she’ll never be

May the Son of Mary me in mercy save

But a kiss with welcome bland

And the touch of thy fair hand

Are all that I demand

Would’st thou not spurn

For if not mine, dear girl

My snowy breasted pearl

May I never from the fair

With life return