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Erin, the smile and the tear in thine eye, is to the tune of
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Eileen Aroon, and the Irish words (which survive in this instance and, I am told by my friend Mr. O'Neil Russell, in only one other), do not correspond in metre with Moore's. He has varied the tune, and is consequently using a different stanza, which corresponds with the Irish only in the last three lines of the refrain. In the other instance, that of
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O blame not the bard,