Eilidh my Fawn

[O]1 far away upon the hills at the lighting of the dawn 
I saw a stirring in the fern And out there leapt a Fawn,
And O my heart was up at that and like the wind it blew
Till its shadow hovered o'er the fawn as ['mid]2 the fern it flew...
And Eilidh, Eilidh, Eilidh! was the [wind]3 song on the hill
And Eilidh, Eilidh, Eilidh! did the echoing corries fill:
My hunting heart was glad indeed, at the lighting of the dawn,
For O it was the hunting then of my bonnie, bonnie Fawn.

by Fiona Macleod (1885-1905) [pseudonym] , "Eilidh my Fawn", from From the Hills of Dream, published 1896

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by Sir Arnold Edward Trevor Bax (1883-1953) , "Eilidh my Fawn", published 1906 [baritone and piano], from A Celtic Song-Cycle, no. 1.
by Helen Hopekirk (1856-1945) , "Eilidh my Fawn", published 1904 [voice and piano], from Five Songs, no. ?

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