Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1862-04-04
MISCELLA.N Y.
For the Bellows Falls Times.
Songs and SOng-WriterS.-- 10.

For the Bellows Falls Times.
Songs and Song Writer'S
''oh! did you not hear Of Kate Kearneys
She lives the banks uf Killarney;
From the glance of her eye, shun danger and fly,
For fatals the glance of Kate Kearney.
For that eye is modcstiy beaming,
| You'd ne'er think of mischief shes dreaming
Yet oh can tell, how fatals the spell,
| That turks in the eye of Kate Kearney.n
Oh should you e'er meet this Kate Kearney,
| Who lives on the hanks of Killarney
Beware of her smie for many vile
Lies hill in the smile Of Kate Kearney
Though she looks SO bewtehingly simple,
Yet there's mischief in every dimple,
And who dares nhale her sights spicy gale,
Must die by the reath Of Kate Kearneyn
This popular song, words and music, was
written by Lady Morgan and celebrated
as are many of her productions, it may be
questioned whether this lyric will not out
| live all her other lucubrations. The father
of Lady Morgan, Mr.. MacOwen, was a
singer, player, manager and respectable
actor; he was favorite in the society of
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Irish songs. He went to England, and ap-
peafed az Covent Garden, in Rowe's tag
edy of +" Tdmberlane :" ran away with, and
married a Miss Hill, and travelled under
the name of Owenson. His eldest daugh-
ter, born betwixt England and Ireland, on
board of passenger ship, in l777, was
named Sydney Owenson, in remembrance
of some favor received from Sir Henry
Sydney. This daughter inherited her ia
theirs prediction for national music and
song. She received such education as could
be found among pianofortes, poetry, plays
and the stage lamps; and with little train
ing in music, she sang to her harp, and with
scanty schooling became celebrated in va
rious departments Of literature-in poetry,
the drama, novels, biography, ethics, poll
ties and books of travels. Very early in
life she published small volume of poet
ical effusions, and later the Lay of the
Irish Harp" and selection of twelve Irish
melodies, with music, one Of which was
Kate Kearney. She fought her way to
eral of satire and sarcasm as of adulation.
Her collection of Irish songs ranked with
Bunting's and Moore's, and was better
known; she married Sir I. c. Morgan, Nj.
D., author of " Sketches of Life and Nor
ais" became Lady Morgan, settled in Lon
don, was petted by the aristocracy, and just
ly pensioned by the English government
for her services to Ireland. She ended her
days in England, and was generally ad-
mred among the circles of the very best
society: and the end Of her days left a void
in the literary world. She died in 1859,
aged 80 years.
In 1912, John Cole, of Baltimore, Mary
land, published The Minstrel" a collec-
ton of celebrated English, Scotch and Irish
Airs and in this collection is Kate Kear-
ney and an " Ans,cer by Mr.. Cole, adapt
ed TO the same music, as follows =
"oh yes, / have seen this Kate Kearney,
who lives near the Lake of killarney;
From her ove-besming eye what mortal can fly,
Unsubdued by the glance Of Kate Kearney
| For that eye selucingly meaning
Assures me Of mischief she's dreaming;
And feel tits in to fly from the chain
That binds to lovely Kate kearney.n
AT eve when I've met this Kate Kearney,
On the flower -manted banks OF Killarney,
Her smile would impart thrilling joy to my heart,
As gazei on the charming Kate Kearney.
On the banks of Killarney reclining,
Ny bosom rapture resigning,
I've felt the keen of love fatal dart,
| And inhaled the warm sigh Of Kate Kearucy."
Coles Minstrel is wen printed u mo-
volume, of SIC pages, containing the words
and the music Of about 40 songs: the
music consists of the melody alone, except
that for three of the songs for which music
harmonized for three voices was prepared
The work is now scarce, but at the time of
4 its publication was considered the best ever
published in this country. JOHN Cole was
somewhat celebrated as teacher and COM
poser Of music. In 1927, he published
g. The Sefaph,' containing 230 pieces OF
music. and soon afterwards the =" Beauties of
Psalmody, containing ninety pieces of mu-
sic. Of this last work, he issued three edi-
tions and new edition of the Seraph "
vas ppblisbed in 1876, Moore.
The rebels buried our dead at Bull Run
with their faces downwards, 10 show their
contempt of them. Before retreaiing the
burned their own dead in their hospitals,
Dead bodies were also found lying in heaps,
some with their hands and feet tied. OF
one The ankles and wrists were tied, and
Ii Lnnas rere clasnea. as if in PRAYER when