# Assynt of the Shadows

- Music: Charles Villiers Stanford (died 1924)
- Words: Murdoch Maclean
- Licence of the score: CC0 1.0
- Credit: OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0)
- Source: https://musescore.com/openscore-lieder-corpus/scores/6547240

## 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.  

Songs to sing here are made from public-domain scores: the OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0), the Mutopia Project (each score's licence as Mutopia states it) and the scores in Japanese Wikipedia's articles (CC BY-SA 4.0, by each article's contributors); dates and first publications as IMSLP, the LiederNet Archive, Mutopia and Wikidata state them. Karaoke videos play in YouTube's player; live channels from the iptv-org database on their own pages; stations from Radio Browser. The piano is the Salamander Grand Piano by Alexander Holm (CC BY 3.0).