Pretty Pearl of the White Mountain, The

DESCRIPTION: "Fourteen days, without lie. I spent on the mountain's side, Ever crying my cry." They say he has had his heart broken by the "Maid of O'Hanly's blood." He wishes he were a duck or a king or a winged mare, but he has lost his way
AUTHOR: Translated by Douglas Hyde
EARLIEST DATE: 1893 (Hyde, Abhráin grádh chúige Connacht)
KEYWORDS: love separation
FOUND IN: US(MA)
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Shoemaker-MountainMinstrelsyOfPennsylvania, pp. 289-290, "The Pretty Pearl of the White Mountain" (1 text)
ADDITIONAL: Douglas Hyde, _Abhráin grádh chúige Connacht, or, Love songs of Connacht_, T. F. Unwin, 1893 (available on Google Books), p. 85, "The Pretty Pearl of the White Mountain" (1 text, apparently with an Irish original)
Roud #15019
NOTES [14 words]: For background on the work of Douglas Hyde, see the notes to "My Own Dark Maiden." - RBW
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