Assynt of the Shadows
Music: Charles Villiers Stanford (1852–1924) · Words: Murdoch Maclean
There’s a driving mist on Assynt of the
shadows, (My heart is sore mo bhron,* my heart
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The words
There’s a driving mist on Assynt of the
shadows, (My heart is sore mo bhron,* my heart
is sore)
The glamour of the dead comes o’er me creeping
And chills
the pulsing of my bosom’s core.
For eyes that gaze on death behold its travail,
(My heart is sore, mo bhron, my heart is sore)
And vain and doubly vain is hope and longing
For him who turns not when his race is o’er.
The shroud is white before my straining vision
(My heart is sore, mo bhron, my heart is sore)
The woven shroud that soon must wind for ever
The sailor’s corse that heaves beyond the
shore.
There’s a deathly mist on Assynt of the
shadows,
(My heart is sore, mo bhron, my heart is sore,
And in the bay there sleeps a man of Assynt,
Nor life nor love
Shall call him ever more.
About this song
- Music
- Charles Villiers Stanford (1852–1924) (dates as OpenScore states them)
- Words
- Murdoch Maclean
- Language
- English, as its source states it
- First published
- in or before 1919, as IMSLP states it
- Length
- 2:57
- Its source files it as
- Songs of a Roving Celt, Op.157
- The score
- OpenScore Lieder Corpus; CC0 1.0, as its source states it. OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0)
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