O native music (Joseph Seymour)
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- Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2024-01-31). Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 647 kB Copyright: Personal
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General Information
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
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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?