by Robert Burns (1759 - 1796)
Prayer for Mary
Language: English
Powers celestial, whose protection Ever guards the virtuos fair, While in distant climes I wander, Let my Mary be your care: Let her form sae fair and faultless, Fair and fautless as your own: Let my Mary’s kindred spirit Draw your choicest influence down. Make the gales you waft around her, Soft and peaceful as her breast; Breathing in the breeze that fans her, Soothe her bosom into rest: Guardian angels, O protect her, When in distant lands I roam; To realms unknown while fate exiles me, Make her bosom still my home.
Confirmed with The Collected Poems of Robert Burns, Wordsworth Editions Limited, 1994, p. 458.
Researcher for this page: Rudi Spring
Authorship:
- by Robert Burns (1759 - 1796), "Prayer for Mary" [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
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Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by L. G. Silbergleit ; composed by Carl Goldmark.
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by (Johann) Philipp Kaufmann (1802 - 1846) , no title, appears in Gedichte von Robert Burns ; composed by Ferdinand Gumbert, Joseph Rheinberger.
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This text was added to the website: 2014-09-26
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