Hermit songs

Pity me on my pilgrimage to Loch Derg!
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Text Authorship:

• by Seán Proinsias Ó Faoláin, né John Francis Whelan (1900 - 1991), appears in The Silver Branch, copyright © 1938

Based on:

• a text in Irish (Gaelic) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist , "Truagh mo thuras ar Loch Dearg"
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• FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Au purgatoire de Saint Patrick", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Sweet little bell
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Text Authorship:

• by Howard Mumford Jones (1892 - 1980), appears in The Romanesque Lyric: Studies in its Background and Development from Petronius to the Cambridge Songs 50-1050, first published 1928, copyright ©

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• a text in Irish (Gaelic) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist
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• FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Cloche de l'église la nuit.", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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I will take nothing from my Lord," said she
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Text Authorship:

• by Chester Kallman (1921 - 1975), copyright © [an adaptation]

Based on:

• a text in Irish (Gaelic) possibly by St. Ita (flourished 8th century)
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• FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Vision de Sainte Ita", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• SPA Spanish (Español) (Sol Crespo) , "St. Ita's Vision", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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I would like to have the men of Heaven in my own house
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Text Authorship:

• by Seán Proinsias Ó Faoláin, né John Francis Whelan (1900 - 1991), "The heavenly banquet", appears in The Silver Branch, copyright © 1938 [an adaptation]

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• a text in Irish (Gaelic) possibly by St. Brigid (flourished 10th century)
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• FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Le banquet céleste", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Note (provided by Melanie Trumbull): Sean O'Faolain did not translate all seven verses of the original Irish. He also rearranged the verses. The result is a text made up of translations of stanzas 3, 6, 5, and 1 (in that order). Samuel Barber's song uses this ordering as well.

It has broken us, it has crushed us
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Text Authorship:

• sometimes misattributed to Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson (1909 - 1991)
• by Seán Proinsias Ó Faoláin, né John Francis Whelan (1900 - 1991), "The wind", appears in The Silver Branch, copyright ©

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• a text in Irish (Gaelic) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist , no title
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• FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Raz de marée", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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I do not know with whom Edan will sleep,
but I do know that fair Edan will not sleep alone.

Text Authorship:

• by Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson (1909 - 1991), "Promiscuity", appears in A Celtic Miscellany, first published 1951

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• FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Promiscuité", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Pangur, white Pangur,
How happy we are
Alone together, Scholar and cat.
Each has his own work to do daily;
For you it is hunting, for me study.
Your shining eye watches the wall;
my feeble eye is fixed on a book.
You rejoice when your claws entrap a mouse;
I rejoice when my mind fathoms a problem.
Pleased with his own art
Neither hinders the other;
Thus we live ever
without tedium and envy.
Pangur, white Pangur,
How happy we are
Alone together, Scholar and cat.

Text Authorship:

• by W. H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden (1907 - 1973)

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• a text in Irish (Gaelic) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist  [text unavailable]
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• FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Le moine et son chat", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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How foolish the man who does not raise
His voice and praise with joyful words,
As he alone can, Heaven's High King.
To whom the light birds with no soul but air,
All day, everywhere laudations sing.

Text Authorship:

• by W. H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden (1907 - 1973)

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• FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Les louanges de Dieu", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Ah! To be all alone in a little cell
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Text Authorship:

• by Seán Proinsias Ó Faoláin, né John Francis Whelan (1900 - 1991), appears in The Silver Branch, copyright © 1938 [an adaptation]

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• a text in Irish (Gaelic) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist , no title
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• FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Le désir d'ermitage", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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