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Where Lagan stream sings lullaby There blows a lily fair The twilight gleam is in her eye The night is on her hair And like a love-sick lennan-shee She has my heart in thrall Nor life I owe nor liberty For love is lord of all. Her father sails a running-barge 'Twixt Leamh-beag and The Druim; And on the lonely river-marge She clears his hearth for him. When she was only fairy-high Her gentle mother died; But dew-Love keeps her memory Green on the Lagan side. And often when the beetle's horn Hath lulled the eve to sleep I steal unto her shieling lorn And thru the dooring peep. There on the cricket's singing stone, She spares the bogwood fire, And hums in sad sweet undertone The songs of heart's desire Her welcome, like her love for me, Is from her heart within: Her warm kiss is felicity That knows no taint of sin. And, when I stir my foot to go, 'Tis leaving Love and light To feel the wind of longing blow From out the dark of night. Where Lagan stream sings lullaby There blows a lily fair The twilight gleam is in her eye The night is on her hair And like a love-sick lennan-shee She has my heart in thrall Nor life I owe nor liberty For love is lord of all.
Text Authorship:
- by Joseph Campbell (1881 - 1944), "My Lagan love" [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):
- by (Herbert) Hamilton Harty, Sir (1879 - 1941), "My Lagan love", published 1905 [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- IRI Irish (Gaelic) [singable] (Gabriel Rosenstock) , "Laoi an Lagáin", copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2009-02-02
Line count: 40
Word count: 226
An Lagán binn i mbun suantraí Is lile bhán faoi bhláth An tráthnóinín ina súil go caoin An oíche ina folt go lá Is mé ar nós an leannáin sí Mo chroíse i ngeimhle atá Im’ dhaor a bheidh mé go síoraí Im’ dhaor ag tiarna an ghrá. Tá báirse ag seol’ 'dir Leam Beg ‘s an Droim Is a daidí féin á stiúr’ Is sí atá i bhfeighil an tí Á sciomradh is á sciúr’. Nuair bhí sí féin ina gearrchailín A máithrín dílis d’éag Ach tá a cuimhne fós go binn Ar bhruacha an Lagáin shéimh Is nuair a ghlaonn an ciaróigín Am suain á mheabhrú dúinn Seo mé go dtí a teachín Ó sí mó stór ’s mo rún. Is bíonn an criogar ag crónán Is an tine á fadú faoi rún Is cloisim í i mbun amhráin An t-aer 'tá lán de dhúil. Céad fáilte romhat, a deir an ríon Ó bí istigh, a ghrá! Is tá a póg mar bhainne cí’ - An mhaighdean shéimh gan cháim! Is nuair is gá dom éalú Ón ngile atá mar réalt Bíonn leoithne lán dem’ thnúth San oíche i bhfad is i gcéin. An Lagán binn i mbun suantraí Is lile bhán faoi bhláth An tráthnóinín ina súil go caoin An oíche ina folt go lá Is mé ar nós an leannáin sí Mo chroíse i ngeimhle atá Im’ dhaor a bheidh mé go síoraí Im’ dhaor ag tiarna an ghrá.
Text Authorship:
- Singable translation from English to Irish (Gaelic) copyright © 2016 by Gabriel Rosenstock.
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Based on:
- a text in English by Joseph Campbell (1881 - 1944), "My Lagan love"
This text was added to the website: 2016-01-16
Line count: 40
Word count: 242