The long night

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.

Translation(s): IRI

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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. [
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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

Text added to the website: 2014-06-23.
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Meidhreach atá

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.

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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.

  
  
  
  
  

• a text in English by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist
• This text was set to music by the following composer(s): Benjamin Britten. Go to the text.

Text added to the website: 2015-01-09.
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