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by Alfred Perceval Graves (1846 - 1931)

My love's an arbutus
Language: English 
My love's an arbutus
By the borders of Lene1,
So slender and shapely
In her girdle of green.
And I measure the pleasure
Of her eye's sapphire sheen
By the blue skies that sparkle
Through the soft branching screen.

But though ruddy the berry
And snowy the flower
That brighten together
The arbutus bower,
Perfuming and blooming
Through sunshine and shower,
Give me her bright lips
And her laugh's pearly dower.

Alas! fruit and blossom
Shall [scatter]2 the lea,
And Time's jealous fingers
Dim your young charms, Machree.
But unranging, unchanging,
You'll still cling to me,
Like the evergreen leaf
To the arbutus tree.

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   C. Stanford 

View original text (without footnotes)
1 Lene = Killarney
2 Stanford: "lie dead on"

Text Authorship:

  • by Alfred Perceval Graves (1846 - 1931), "My love's an arbutus", appears in Father O'Flynn and other Irish Lyrics, first published 1880 [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 John Theodore Livingston Raynor (1909 - 1970), "My Love's An Arbutus", op. 441 (1955) [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Charles Villiers Stanford, Sir (1852 - 1924), "My love's an arbutus", published [1882?] [ voice and piano ], from Songs of Old Ireland. A Collection of Fifty Irish Melodies Unknown in England, no. 25, arrangement ; London, Boosey & Co. ; dedicated to Johannes Brahms, August 1882 [sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this page: Ted Perry

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 24
Word count: 107

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