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Bunting - A General Collection of the Ancient Music of Ireland, Volume 1, Issue 1, Page 66

Bunting - A General Collection of the Ancient Music of Ireland, Volume 1, Issue 1, Page 66
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periodical Publisher
Clementi & Co., London, 1809
periodical Editor
Edward Bunting
periodical Title
Bunting - A General Collection of the Ancient Music of Ireland
volume Number
1
issue Content
21INSPIRING FOUNT OF CHEERING WINE!A LITERAL TRANSLATION FROM THE IRISHINSPIRING fount of cheering wine!Once more I see thee flow:Help me to raise the lay divine,Propitiate thy Mayo.3layo! whose valour sweeps the field,And swells the trump of fame,May Heavns high power the champion shieldAnd deathless be his name!Of glorys sons, thou glorious heir,Thou branch of honours root!Desert me not, but bend thine earPropitious to my suit.Oh! bid thy exild bard return,Too long from safety fled;No more in absence let him mourn,Till earth shall hide his head!Shield of defence, and princely sway!May he, who rules the sky,Prolong on earth thy glorious day,And every good supply!Thy death his days would quickly close,Who lives but in thy grace,And neer on earth can taste repose,Till thou shalt seal his peace!This song is very ancient, and composed long before the time of Carolan, by DAVXD MURPHY, a poor dependent of Lord Mayo, whom hehad taken from motives of benevolence under his roof, and whom the fear of continuing in his lordships disgrace after having incurred his dis-pleasure, incited to give birth to one of the finest productions that ever did honour to any country, and was played for the first time in Lord Mayoshail on Christmas eve., where the peilitent bard had concealed himself after nightfall, from an apprehension that the most humble advances would notsoften his lordships resentment. [ Vide Walkers Irish Bards.]
issue Number
1
page Number
66
periodical Author
Edward Bunting
issue Publication Date
1809-01-01T00:00:00
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Bunting - A General Collection of the Ancient Music of Ireland