by William Sharp (1855 - 1905), as Fiona Macleod
Lennavan‑mo
Language: English
Lennavan-mo, Lennavan-mo, Who is it swinging you to and fro, With a long low swing and a sweet low croon, And the loving words of the mother's rune? Lennavan-mo, Lennavan-mo, Who is it swinging you to and fro? I am thinking it is an angel fair, The Angel that looks on the gulf from the lowest stair And swings the green world upward by its leagues of sunshine hair. Lennavan-mo, Lennavan-mo, Who swingeth you and the Angel to and fro? It is He whose faintest thought is a world afar, It is He whose wish is a leaping seven-moon'd star, It is He, Lennavan-mo, To whom you and I and all things flow. Lennavan-mo, Lennavan-mo, It is only a little wee lass you are, Eilidh-mochree, But as this wee blossom has roots in the depths of the sky, So you are at one with the Lord of Eternity -- Bonnie wee lass that you are, My morning-star, Eilidh-mo-chree, Lennavan-mo, Lennavan-mo.
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- by William Sharp (1855 - 1905), as Fiona Macleod, "Lullaby", appears in From the Hills of Dream, first published 1896 [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 Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, Sir (1883 - 1953), "A Celtic Lullaby", published 1906 [ baritone and piano ], from A Celtic Song-Cycle, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Benjamin Burrows (1891 - 1966), "Lennavan-Mo", 1927 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Percy Algernon Whitehead , "Lennavan-Mo", published 1912 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
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