“The light that lies
In woman's eyes,
Has been my heart's undoing.”

— Thomas Moore

The Time I've Lost in Wooing, st. 1.
Irish Melodies http://www.musicanet.org/robokopp/moore.html (1807–1834)

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Irish poet, singer and songwriter 1779–1852

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