The Maid of Elsinore
Music: Sir Harold Boulton, 2nd Baronet (1859–1935) · Words: Harold Boulton (1859–1935)
A tearful boy king Olaf stood ’Mid his
warriors grim and grey, As the good ship bore
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The words
A tearful boy king Olaf stood ’Mid his
warriors grim and grey, As the good ship bore
him over the flood, From his first fond love
away. His wistful eyes still sought the shore,
But the rough earls laugh’d that Odin’s seed
The woodland flow’r should stoop to heed,
The Maid of Elsinore.
The mountain pine grows strong and sure,
By northern tempests sway’d,
The frail harebell will bloom secure In the
shelter’d forest glade; Thus Olaf’s arm wax’d
great in war, Till distant isles his prowess
knew, And fairer bloom’d and ever true
The Maid of Elsinore.
’Twas ten long years of storm and fight By many
a foreign main, Ere great king Olaf’s
conquering might Came sailing home again;
The Viking ships were rang’d ashore,
The rough earls laugh’d in scorn no more,
He plac’d her hands within his own,
Upon her brow the queenly crown,
O’er fjord and field the glad bells peal’d,
For the Maid, the Maid of Elsinore.
About this song
- Music
- Sir Harold Boulton, 2nd Baronet (1859–1935) (dates as OpenScore states them)
- Words
- Harold Boulton (1859–1935) (dates as IMSLP states them)
- Language
- English, as its source states it
- First published
- in or before 1891, as IMSLP states it
- Length
- 2:09
- Its source files it as
- 12 New Songs
- The score
- OpenScore Lieder Corpus; CC0 1.0, as its source states it. OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0)
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