Let Erin remember the days of old (Michael William Balfe)

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• (Posted 2024-01-09)  CPDL #78659:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2024-01-09).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 424 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: Let Erin remember the days of old
Composer: Anonymous (Traditional)
Arranger: Michael William Balfe
Lyricist: Thomas Moore
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong, Folksong

Language: English
Instruments: Piano

First published: 1859 J. Alfred Novello
Description: AIR: THE RED FOX

Original text and translations

English text

Let Erin remember the days of old,
Ere her faithless sous betray’d her;
When Malachi wore the collar of gold,
Which he won from her proud invader;
When her kings, with standard of green unfurl’d
Led the Red-Branch Knights to danger;
Ere the emerald gem of the western world
Was set in the crown of a stranger.

On Lough Neagh’s bank as the fisherman strays,
When the clear, cold eve’s declining,
He sees the round towers of other days,
In the wave beneath him shining!
Thus shall memory often, in dreams sublime,
Catch a glimpse of the days that are over;
Thus, sighing, look thro’ the waves of time
For the long faded glories they cover!