Wather's o' Moyle an' the white gulls flyin', Since I was near ye what have I seen? Deep great seas, an' a sthrong wind sighin' Night an' day where the waves are green. Struth na Moile the wind goes sighin' Over a waste o' wathers green. Slemish an' Trostan, dark wi' heather, High are the Rockies, airy-blue; Sure ye have snows in the winter weather, Here they're lyin' the long year through. Snows are fair in the summer weather, Och, an' the shadows between are blue! Lone Glen Dun an' the wild glen flow'rs, Little ye know if the prairie is sweet. Roses for miles, an' redder than ours Spring here undher the horses' feet, Ay, an' the black-eyed gold sunflowers - Not as the glen flow'rs small an' sweet. Wathers o' Moyle, I hear ye callin' Clearer for half o' the world between, Antrim hills an' the wet rain fallin' Whiles ye are nearer than snow-tops keen: Dreams o' the night an' a night wind callin' - What is the half o' the world between?
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Authorship:
- by Agnes Shakespeare Higginson (1864 - 1955), as Moira O'Neill [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 Charles Villiers Stanford, Sir (1852 - 1924), "Lookin' Back", op. 174 no. 3 (1920), published 1920 [ voice and piano ], from Six Songs from "The Glens of Antrim", no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
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