Préacháin ag filleadh | Préacháin ag filleadh

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by Joseph Campbell (1881 - 1944)

Translation © by Gabriel Rosenstock

When rooks fly homeward

Language: English

Our translations: IRI

When rooks fly homeward 
And shadows fall, 
When roses fold 
On the hay-yard wall, 
"When blind moths flutter 
By door and tree, 
Then comes the quiet 
Of Christ to me. 
 
When stars look out 
On the Children's Path, 
And grey mists gather 
On carn and rath, 
When night is one 
With the brooding sea, 
Then comes the quiet 
Of Christ to me.

Text Authorship:

by Joseph Campbell (1881 - 1944), "When rooks fly homeward", appears in The Gilly of Christ, first published 1907 [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 Ivor (Bertie) Gurney (1890 - 1937), "When rooks fly homeward" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Fritz Bennicke Hart (1874 - 1949), "When rooks fly homeward", op. 49 no. 4 (1922) [ voice and piano ], from Thirteen Songs: The Gilly of Christ, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
by Alec Rowley (1892 - 1958), "When rooks fly homeward", published <<1940 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Arthur Shepherd (1880 - 1958), "When rooks fly homeward" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

IRI Irish (Gaelic) [singable] (Gabriel Rosenstock) , "Préacháin ag filleadh", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Ferdinando Albeggiani

This text was added to the website: 2009-02-04
Line count: 16
Word count: 62

Préacháin ag filleadh

Language: Irish (Gaelic) after the English

Préacháin ag filleadh
Is titeann scáth,
An rós fá shuan
San iothlainn tá,
Na leamhain dhalla
’Na n-eitilt rúin
Is seoltar síth
Ár dTiarna chugam.
 
 Nuair ’bhreathnaíonn réalt’
Ar an Ógchosán,
Nuair a chruinníonn ceo
Go dlúth sa ráth,
Nuair ’théann an oích’
Sa sáile ciúin
Sea ’sheoltar síth
Ár dTiarna chugam.

Text Authorship:

Singable translation from English to Irish (Gaelic) copyright © 2014 by Gabriel Rosenstock.
This author's work falls under the Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) Creative Commons license.

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Based on:

a text in English by Joseph Campbell (1881 - 1944), "When rooks fly homeward", appears in The Gilly of Christ, first published 1907
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This text was added to the website: 2014-11-24
Line count: 16
Word count: 52