by Bryan Waller Procter (1787 - 1874), as Barry Cornwall

Song
Language: English 
   Here's a health to thee, Jessy.
         Burns.

Here's a health to thee, Mary,
Here's a health to thee;
The drinkers are gone,
And I am alone,
To think of home and thee, Mary.

There are some who may shine o'er thee, Mary,
And many as frank and free,
And a few as fair,
But the summer air
Is not more sweet to me, Mary.

I have thought of thy last low sigh, Mary,
And thy dimm'd and gentle eye;
And I've call'd on thy name
When the night winds came,
And heard my heart reply, Mary.

Be thou but true to me, Mary,
And I'll be true to thee;
And at set of sun,
When my task is done,
Be sure that I'm ever with thee, Mary.

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  • Also set in German (Deutsch), [adaptation] ; composed by Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein.
  • Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799 - 1837) , no title [an adaptation] ; composed by Yury Karlovich Arnold, César Antonovich Cui, Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka, Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein, Alexander Nikolayevich Serov, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Shakhmatov, Vissarion Yakovlevich Shebalin, Valentin Vasilovich Silvestrov, Aleksandr Yegorovich Varlamov, Vyacheslov Ivanovich Volkov, Mikhail Mikhailovich Zherbin.

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Researcher for this page: Harry Joelson

This text was added to the website: 2011-06-25
Line count: 22
Word count: 128