Avenging and bright (Michael William Balfe)

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• (Posted 2024-01-16)  CPDL #78784:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2024-01-16).   Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 570 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Avenging and bright
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: CROOGHAN A VENEE

Original text and translations

English text

Avenging and bright fall the swift sword of Erin
  On him who the brave sons of Usna betray’d! —
For every fond eye he hath waken’d a tear in
  A drop from his heart-wounds shall weep o’er her blade.

By the red cloud that hung over Conor’s dark dwelling,
  When Ulad’s three champions lay sleeping in gore —
By the billows of war, which so often, high swelling,
  Have wafted these heroes to victory’s shore —

We swear to avenge them! — no joy shall be tasted,
  The harp shall be silent, the maiden unwed,
Our halls shall be mute, and our fields shall lie wasted,
  Till vengeance is wreak’d on the murderer’s head.

Yes, monarch! though sweet are our home recollections,
  Though sweet are the tears that from tenderness fall;
Though sweet are our friendships, our hopes, our affections,
  Revenge on a tyrant is sweetest of all!