Sweet Innisfallen - Stanford, Charles Villiers

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"AIR: THE CAPTIVATING YOUTH<br> Commissioned for use by school choirs in the U.S., this Irish folksong setting was never published in the UK and was unknown to scholars for nearly a century."

⌛ Period → Late Romantic ◈ Genre → Folksongs ♬ Voicing → SATB ¶ Language → English

Parts 4

Instruments A cappella

Pages 4

CPDL # 79570

Editor David Anderson

Posted 2024-03-17

License Personal

¶Lyrics / Text

(Stanford’s setting includes only stanzas 1, 2, and 8 of Moore’s nine-stanza poem.) Sweet Innisfallen, fare thee well, May calm and sunshine long be thine! How fair thou art let others tell,— To feel how fair shall long be mine. Sweet Innisfallen, long shall dwell In memory’s dream that sunny smile, Which o’er thee on that evening fell, When first I saw thy fairy isle. Weeping or smiling, lovely isle! And all the lovelier for thy tears— For though but rare thy sunny smile, ’Tis heav’n’s own glance when it appears.