The Isle of Mull (Hugh S. Roberton)

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• (Posted 2023-06-03)  CPDL #74004:       

Editor: Ian Haslam (submitted 2023-06-03).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 97 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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General Information

Title: The Isle of Mull
Composer: Hugh S. Roberton
Lyricist: Malcolm MacFarlane
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1926
Description: Originally published by Bayley & Ferguson Ltd

Original text and translations

English text

The Isle of Mull is of isles the fairest,
Of ocean gems 'tis the first and rarest;
Green grassy island of spark-ling fountains,
Of waving woods and high tow'ring mountains.

How pleasant 'twas in the May morning,
The rising sun thy gay fields adorning;
The feathered songsters their lays were singing,
While rocks and wood were with echoes ringing.

But gone are now all those joys for ever,
Like bubbles bursting on yonder river:
Farewell, farewell, to thy sparkling fountains,
Thy waving woods and high tow'ring mountains.