Canto Third -- The Gathering Part II (Scott) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


The heath this night must be my bed,
The bracken curtain for my head,
My lullaby the warder's tread,
Far, far from love and thee, Mary;
To-morrow eve, more stilly laid,
My couch may be my bloody plaid,
My vesper song, they wail, sweet maid!
It will not waken me, Mary!

It will not waken me, Mary!
I may not, dare not, fancy now
The grief that clouds thy lovely brow.
I dare not thin upon thy vow;
And all it promised me, Mary.
No fond regrets must Norman know;
When bursts Clan-Alpine on the foe,
His heart must be like bended bow,
His foot like arrow free, Mary.

A time will come with feeling fraught,
For, if I fall in battle fought,
They hapless lover's dying thought,
Shall be a thought on thee, Mary.
And if return'd from conquer'd foes,
How blithely will the evening close,
How sweet the linnet sing repose,
To my young bride and me, Mary!

Authorship

Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)

The Lady of the Lake

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, a translation of Adam Storck (1780-1822) [pseudonym] DUT GER

Franz Peter Schubert (1797-1828)

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

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