Nor right, nor left, nor any road I see a comrade face, Nor word to lift the heart in me I hear in any place; They leave me, who pass by me, to my loneliness and care, Without a house to draw my step nor a fire that I might share! Ochone, before our people knew the scatt'ring of the dearth, Before they saw potatoes rot and melt black in the earth, I might have stood in Connacht, on the top of Cruchmaelinn, And all around me I would see the hundreds of my kin.
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Note: revised in 1960 (not shown)Authorship:
- by Padraic Colum (1881 - 1972), "A Rann of Exile", appears in Wild Earth, 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 Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, Sir (1883 - 1953), "Rann of Exile", 1918?, published 1922 [ mezzo-soprano and piano ], from Three Irish Songs, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Aloys Georg Fleischmann (1910 - 1992), "Caoine", 1972 [ soprano or tenor and Irish harp ], from The Poet's Circuits [sung text not yet checked]
- by Herbert Hughes (1882 - 1937), "Rann of Exile", <<1937 [ voice and piano ], from Songs from Connacht [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2009-01-13
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