Hope it's a happy day for everyone. The first two entries under "Music Links" in the left column have some sprightly Irish tunes.

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And here's a Surprise! (click it).

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"...I will not read them as if they were prose!"

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The Lake Isle of Innisfree

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I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,

And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made.

Nine beanrows will I have there, a hive for the honeybee,

And live alone in the beeloud glade.

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And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,

Dropping from the veils of the morning, to where the cricket sings.

There, midnight's all a-glimmer, and noon a purple glow,

And evening full of the linnet's wings.

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I will arise and go now, for always, night and day,

I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;

While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements gray,

I hear it in the deep heart's core.