O men from the fields, Come gently within, Tread softly, softly, O men, coming in... [For]1 [m'mhurnin]2 is going From me and from you Where Mary will fold him With mantle of blue, From reek of the smoke And cold of the floor And [peering]3 of things Across the half-door. O men from the fields, Softly, softly come through; Mary puts round him Her mantle of blue.
Three Irish Songs
Song Cycle by Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, Sir (1883 - 1953)
1. Cradle Song  [sung text not yet checked]
Authorship:
- by Padraic Colum (1881 - 1972), "A cradle song", appears in Wild Earth, first published 1907
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View original text (without footnotes)1 omitted by Coulthard and Moeran
2 pronounce - "ma-vourn-yeen" (editor's note); Coulthard, Moeran, and Weigl substitute in "Mavourneen"
3 Moeran: "the peering"
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2. Rann of Exile  [sung text not yet checked]
Nor right, nor left, nor any road I see a comrade face, Nor word to lift the heart in me I hear in any place; They leave me, who pass by me, to my loneliness and care, Without a house to draw my step nor a fire that I might share! Ochone, before our people knew the scatt'ring of the dearth, Before they saw potatoes rot and melt black in the earth, I might have stood in Connacht, on the top of Cruchmaelinn, And all around me I would see the hundreds of my kin.
Authorship:
- by Padraic Colum (1881 - 1972), "A Rann of Exile", appears in Wild Earth, first published 1907
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3. Rann of Wandering  [sung text not yet checked]
On Saint Bride's day, when it comes, I will throw a sail on the lake, And in Kiltimagh of my friends on a fine day I'll awake, Where the hounds will go before us, and make music of delight ; Where the fires will be piled up, and the tables spread at night ! O, my courage will be mounting up until my spirit's so, That within a mile of the World's Mouth I will be fain to go : Sure the scatt'ring of the mist across leaves no half wish behind, And my heart was ever lifted with the lifting of the wind.
Authorship:
- by Padraic Colum (1881 - 1972), "A Rann of Wandering", appears in Wild Earth, first published 1907
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