Meidhreach atá | Meidhreach atá, sé an samhradh é

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Translation © by Gabriel Rosenstock

The long night

Language: English

Our translations: IRI

Mirie it is, while summer ilast,
With fugheles song.
Oc nu necheth windes blast
And weder strong
Ey! ey! what this night is long!
And ich, with well michel wrong,
Soregh and murne and fast.

Text Authorship:

by Anonymous / Unidentified Author [author's text not yet checked 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):

by (Edward) Benjamin Britten (1913 - 1976), "The long night", op. 91 no. 4 (1975), first performed 1975 [SSATB chorus a cappella], from the collection Sacred and Profane: Eight Medieval Lyrics, no. 4. [
text verified 1 time
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Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable):

IRI Irish (Gaelic) [singable] (Gabriel Rosenstock) , title 1: "Meidhreach atá", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2014-06-23
Line count: 7
Word count: 35

Meidhreach atá

Language: Irish (Gaelic) after the English

Meidhreach atá, sé an samhradh é
Is ceol binn-éan;
Ach seo chugainn an ghaoth ghéar
Is gálaí tréan’.
Aidhe, aidhe, fad’ an oíche’, mo léan!
Seo mé is m’anamsa i bpéin
Buartha gan greim i mo bhéal.

Text Authorship:

Singable translation from English to Irish (Gaelic) copyright © 2015 by Gabriel Rosenstock.
This author's work falls under the Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) Creative Commons license.

Gabriel Rosenstock. Contact: grosenstock04 (AT) gmail (DOT) com
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Based on:

a text in English by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist
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This text was added to the website: 2015-01-09
Line count: 7
Word count: 37