On, haste and leave this sacred isle (Michael William Balfe)

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• (Posted 2024-01-05)  CPDL #78604:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2024-01-05).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 478 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: Oh, haste and leave this sacred isle
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 BROWN THORN

Original text and translations

English text

St. Senanus and the Lady

St. Senanus
“Oh! haste, and leave this sacred isle,
Unholy bark, ere morning smile;
For on thy deck, though dark it be,
A female form I see;
And I have sworn this sainted sod
Shall ne’er by woman’s feet be trod!”

The Lady
“Oh! Father, send not hence my bark
Through wintry winds and billows dark,
I come, with humble heart, to share
Thy morn and evening prayer;
Nor mine the feet, oh! holy Saint,
The brightness of thy sod to taint.”

The lady’s prayer Senanus spurn’d;
The winds blew fresh, the bark return’d.
But legends hint, that had the maid
Till morning’s light delay’d,
And given the saint one rosy smile,
She ne’er had left his lonely isle.