On Saint Bride's day, when it comes, I will throw a sail on the lake, And in Kiltimagh of my friends on a fine day I'll awake, Where the hounds will go before us, and make music of delight ; Where the fires will be piled up, and the tables spread at night ! O, my courage will be mounting up until my spirit's so, That within a mile of the World's Mouth I will be fain to go : Sure the scatt'ring of the mist across leaves no half wish behind, And my heart was ever lifted with the lifting of the wind.
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Text Authorship:
- by Padraic Colum (1881 - 1972), "A Rann of Wandering", 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 Wandering", 1918?, published 1922 [ mezzo-soprano and piano ], from Three Irish Songs, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by (Herbert) Hamilton Harty, Sir (1879 - 1941), "Rann of Wandering", published <<1940 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2009-01-13
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