She Weeps over Rahoon (Julian Gunkel)
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- Editor: Julian Gunkel (submitted 2013-03-31). Score information: A4, 6 pages, 331 kB Copyright: CPDL
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General Information
Title: She Weeps over Rahoon
Composer: Julian Gunkel
Lyricist: James Joyce
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 2012
Description:
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Original text and translations
English text
Rain on Rahoon falls softly, softly falling,
Where my dark lover lies.
Sad is his voice that calls me, sadly calling,
At grey moonrise.
Love, hear thou
How soft, how sad his voice is ever calling,
Ever unanswered, and the dark rain falling,
Then as now.
Dark too our hearts, O love, shall lie and cold
As his sad heart has lain
Under the moongrey nettles, the black mould
And muttering rain.
(James Joyce, as quoted here:
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/she-weeps-over-rahoon/ )