O native music (Joseph Seymour)

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• (Posted 2024-01-31)  CPDL #78958:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2024-01-31).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 647 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: O native music
Composer: Anonymous (Traditional)
Arranger: Joseph Seymour
Lyricist: Samuel Lover
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong, Folksong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1900 J. Fischer & Bro.
Description: Irish melody

Original text and translations

English text

O native music! beyond comparing
The sweetest far on the ear that falls,
Thy gentle numbers the heart remembers,
 Thy strains enchain us in tender thralls.
    Thy tones endearing,
    Or sad or cheering,
The absent soothe on a foreign strand:
    Oh! who can tell
    What a holy spell
Is in the song of our native land?

The proud and lowly, the pilgrim holy,
The lover, kneeling at beauty's shrine,
The bard who dreams by the haunted streams,—
All, all are touch’d by thy power divine!
    The captive cheerless,
    The soldier fearless;
The mother,—taught by Nature’s hand:
    Oh! who can tell
    What a holy spell
Is in the song of our native land?