Oh for the swords (Charles Villiers Stanford)
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- (Posted 2024-03-07) CPDL #79425:
- Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2024-03-07). Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 484 kB Copyright: Personal
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General Information
Title: Oh for the swords
Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford
Lyricist: Thomas Moore
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong, Folksong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1922 J. Curwen & Sons
Description: Six Irish Airs (1)
OLD IRISH AIR
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Original text and translations
English text
Oh for the swords of former time!
Oh for the men who bore them,
When, arm’d for Right, they stood sublime,
And tyrants crouch’d before them!
When free yet, ere courts began
With honours to eslave him,
The best honours worn by man
Were those which Virtue gave him!
Oh for the swords of former time!
Oh for the men who bore them!
When arm’d with Right, they stood sublime,
And tyrants crouch’d before them!
Oh for the kings who flourished then,
Oh for the pomp that crowned them,
When hearts and hands of freeborn men
Were all the ramparts round them!
When safe built on bosoms true,
The throne was but the centre
Round which Love a circle drew
That Treason durst not enter.
Oh for the kings who flourished then,
Oh for the pomp that crowned them,
When hearts and hands of freeborn men
Were all the ramparts round them!