Closing doors (Macleod) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


O sands of my heart, what wind moans low along thy shadowy shore?
Is that the deep sea-heart I hear with the dying sob at its core?
Each dim lost wave that lapses is like a closing door:
Tis closing doors they hear at last who soon shall hear no more,
Who soon shall hear no more.
Eilidh, Eilidh, Eilidh, call low, come back, call low to me:
My heart you have broken, your troth forsaken, but love even yet can be:
Come near, call low, for closing doors are as the waves o' the sea,
Once closed they are closed for ever, Eilidh, lost, lost, for thee and me,
Lost, lost, for thee and me.

Authorship

Fiona Macleod (1885-1905) [pseudonym]

From the Hills of Dream

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Set in English, adapted by Sir Arnold Edward Trevor Bax (1883-1953) ENG

Sir Arnold Edward Trevor Bax (1883-1953)

A Celtic Song-Cycle

Date added to the website: 2008-08-17.

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