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Four royal children, fair and bright
Transformed by a stepmother's dark blight
Cursed to a lifetime of sorrow and strife
As swans they would spend their immortal life
Swans on the lakes, across the wide sea
The doomed Children of Lir, forever to be
Their nine hundred years' haunting refrain
A lament of lost love, a sorrowful strain
Fionnuala, Aodh, Fiachra, and Conn
Stripped of their human forms, forever forlorn
Searching in vain for a way to be free
Trapped in their avian captivity
Swans on the lakes, across the wide sea
The doomed Children of Lir, forever to be
Their nine hundred years' haunting refrain
A lament of lost love, a sorrowful strain
Through the centuries steadily marching on by
They yearned for the day they'd no longer have to fly
Awaiting the toll of a Christian bell
To break the dark spell and their exile dispel
At last their exile has come to an end
As mortal beings, their journey to mend
But time had taken its toll, their wings withered away
Their brief taste of freedom, a bittersweet relay
Swans on the lakes, across the wide sea
The doomed Children of Lir, forever to be
Their nine hundred years' haunting refrain
A lament of lost love, a sorrowful strain
Four royal children, now legends forlorn
A timeless tale of love and sorrow reborn