A Rann of Exile (Colum, set by A. Bax, A. Fleischmann, H. Hughes) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


Nor right, nor left, nor any road I see a comrade face, 
Nor word to lift the heart in me I hear in any place; 
They leave me, who pass by me, to my loneliness and care, 
Without a house to draw my step nor a fire that I might share! 

Ochone, before our people knew the scatt'ring of the dearth, 
Before they saw potatoes rot and melt black in the earth, 
I might have stood in Connacht, on the top of Cruchmaelinn, 
And all around me I would see the hundreds of my kin.

Note: revised in 1960 (not shown)

Authorship

Padraic Colum (1881-1972)

Wild Earth

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

Sir Arnold Edward Trevor Bax (1883-1953)

Three Irish Songs

Aloys Fleischmann (1910-)

The Poet's Circuits

Herbert Hughes (1882-1937)

Songs from Connacht

Date added to the website: 2009-01-13.

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