The Salley Gardens

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*Traditional Irish Folk Tune

Poetry by W. B. Yeats
"Salley Garden" = "Sallow Garden" (Gaelic "saillaeach" or Latin "Salix"),
which is a garden of willows kept for medicinal purposes
and as a source for sprouts used in making wicker baskets and furniture.
The Sally Garden was also a place for Lovers' trysts. A weir = dam*