Come o’er the sea (Charles Villiers Stanford)
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- (Posted 2024-03-16) CPDL #79566:
- Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2024-03-16). Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 532 kB Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes: This edition is the first since its original U.S. printing, transcribed and edited by the discovering researcher.
General Information
Title: Come o’er the sea
Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford
Lyricist: Thomas Moore
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong, Folksong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1904 Oliver Ditson Co.
Description: AIR: CUISHLA MA CHREE
Commissioned by the Irish Choral Society of Chicago, this Irish folksong setting was never published in the UK and was unknown to scholars for over a century.
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Original text and translations
English text
Come o’er the sea,
Maiden with me,
Mine through sunshine, storm, and snows;
Seasons may roll,
But the true soul
Burns the same, where’er it goes.
Let fate frown on, so we love and part not;
’Tis life where thou art, ’tis death were thou are not.
Then come o’er the sea,
Maiden with me,
Come wherever the wild wind blows;
Seasons may roll,
But the true soul
Burns the same, where’er it goes.
Was not the sea
Made for the Free,
Land for courts and chains alone?
Here we are slaves,
But, on the waves,
Love and Liberty’s all our own.
No eye to watch, and no tongue to wound us,
All earth forgot, and all heaven around us—
Then come o’er the sea,
Maiden, with me,
Mine through sunshine, storms, and snows;
Seasons may roll,
But the true soul
Burns the same, where’er it goes.