Adhradh ciúin | Nach bhfaca tú an aoileann

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by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

Translation © by Gabriel Rosenstock

Silent worship

Language: English

Our translations: IRI

Did you not hear My Lady
Go down the garden singing
Blackbird and thrush were silent
To hear the alleys ringing...

Oh saw you not My Lady
Out in the garden there
Shaming the rose and lily
For she is twice as fair.

Though I am nothing to her
Though she must rarely look at me
And though I could never woo her
I love her till I die.

Surely you heard My Lady
Go down the garden singing
Silencing all the songbirds
And setting the alleys ringing...

But surely you see My Lady
Out in the garden there
Rivaling the glittering sunshine
With a glory of golden hair.

Text Authorship:

by Anonymous / Unidentified Author, "Silent Worship" [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 Georg Friedrich Händel (1685 - 1759) and by Arthur Somervell, Sir (1863 - 1937), "Silent worship", note: this is Somervell's arrangement of Handel's Non lo diro col Labbro [ sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

IRI Irish (Gaelic) [singable] (Gabriel Rosenstock) , "Adhradh ciúin", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Paul Fontenoy

This text was added to the website: 2007-04-29
Line count: 20
Word count: 109

Adhradh ciúin

Language: Irish (Gaelic) after the English

Nach bhfaca tú an aoileann
Ag canadh léi sa ghairdín,
Tost ar an lon ’s an chéirseach
Ar chlos an mhacalla álainn. . .
 
Ó nár léir duit ise
Is í ag siúl léi féin
Deise í ná rós ná lile
Ná gaetha ón ngréin.
 
Cé nach eol di cé mé
Cé nach bhféachann i mo threo
Is cé nach leomhfainn é a rá
Beidh grá agam di go deo.
 
Chuala tú cinnte an aoileann
Ag canadh léi sa ghairdín
Tost ar na héinín’ uile
Ag fuaim an mhacalla álainn
 
Ach cinnte is léir an aoileann
Is í ag siúl léi féin
Ag iomaíocht le gile neimhe
'S a folt óir mar dheora gréin’!

Text Authorship:

Singable translation from English to Irish (Gaelic) copyright © 2014 by Gabriel Rosenstock.
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Gabriel Rosenstock. Contact: grosenstock04 (AT) gmail (DOT) com
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Based on:

a text in English by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist , "Silent Worship"
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This text was added to the website: 2014-11-19
Line count: 20
Word count: 114