Norna's Song (Scott) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


For leagues along the watery way
Through gulf and stream my course has been;
The hillows know my Runic lay,
And smooth their crests to silent green.

The hillows know my Runic lay -
The gulf grows smooth, the stream is still;
The human hearts, more wild than they'
Know but the rule of wayward will.

One hour is mine, in all the year,
To tell my woes - and one alone;
When gleams this magic lamp, 'tis here -
When dies the mystic light, 'tis gone.

Daughters on northern Magnus, hail!
The lamp is lit, the flame is clear -
To you I come to tell my tale,
Awake, arise, my tale to hear!

Authorship

Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)

The Pirate

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

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Set in German, adapted by Samuel Heinrich Spiker DUT GER

Franz Peter Schubert (1797-1828)

Date added to the website: 2003-11-07.

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