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Six Sets of Five Songs Each for Voice and Pianoforte, Set II , opus 73

by Fritz Bennicke Hart (1874 - 1949)

1. At the last  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
She cometh no more:
Time too is dead.
The last tide is led
[From]1 the last shore.

Eternity!
What is Eternity,
But the sea coming,
The sea going
Forevermore?

Text Authorship:

  • by William Sharp (1855 - 1905), as Fiona Macleod, "At the last", appears in From the Hills of Dream, first published 1896

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2. When the dew is falling  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
When the dew is falling
I have heard a calling
Of aerial sweet voices o'er the low green hill;

And when the moon is dying
I have heard a crying
Where the brown burn slippeth thro' the hollows green and still.

And O the sorrow upon me,
The grey grief upon me,
For a voice that whispered once, and now for aye is still:

O heart forsaken, calling
When the dew is falling,
To the one that comes not ever o'er the low green hill.

Text Authorship:

  • by William Sharp (1855 - 1905), as Fiona Macleod, "When the dew is falling", appears in From the Hills of Dream, first published 1896

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3. Dead love  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
     From the Gaelic

(Heard sung by an old woman of
The Island of Tiree)

It is the grey rock I am,
And the grey rain on the rock:
It is the grey wave . . .
That grey hound.

What (is it) to be old:
(It is to be as) the grey moss in winter:
Alasdair-mo-ghaol,
It is long since my laughter.

Alasdair-mo-ghaol,
The breast is shrivelled
That you said was white
As canna in the wind.

Text Authorship:

  • by William Sharp (1855 - 1905), as Fiona Macleod, "Dead love", appears in From the Hills of Dream, first published 1896

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4. The White Peace  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
It lies not on the sunlit hill
    Nor on the sunlit plain :
Nor ever on any running stream
    Nor on the unclouded main --

But sometimes, through the Soul of Man,
    Slow moving o'er his pain,
The moonlight of a perfect peace
    Floods heart and brain.

Text Authorship:

  • by William Sharp (1855 - 1905), as Fiona Macleod, "The White Peace", appears in From the Hills of Dream, first published 1896

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5. Desires  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
The Desire of Love, Joy:
The Desire of Life, Peace
The Desire of the Soul, Heaven:
The Desire of God ... a flamewhite secret for ever.

Text Authorship:

  • by William Sharp (1855 - 1905), as Fiona Macleod, "Desires", appears in From the Hills of Dream, first published 1896

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