Oran gaoil' (Burns, set by J. Haydn) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


Behold the hour the boat arrive!
Thou goest, thou darling of my heart:
Ah! sever'd from thee, can I survive?
But fate has will'd, and we must part!
I'll often greet this surging swell;
Yon distant isle will often hail;
"E'en here, I took the last farewel;
"There, latest mark'd her vanish'd sail".

Along the solitary shore,
While flitting sea-fowls round me cry,
Across the rolling, dashing roar,
I'Il westward turn my wistful eye:
Happy, thou Indian grove, I'Il say,
Where now my Nancy's path may be!
While through thy sweets she loves to stray,
O tell me, does she muse on me!

oran gaoil = Song of love

Input by Guy Laffaille

Authorship

Robert Burns (1759-1796)

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

(Franz) Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)

Date added to the website: 2008-06-08.

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