Hello everyone. I have been searching for the name and origin of this song for 20 years. I first saw it in the book Darkover Landfall and was so taken with it I composed a melody for it, as I imagined it would sound. Recently in a newer publication of the book the author listed the source from Songs of the Hebrides by Marjorie Kennedy-Fraser. She said the songs quoted in the book are the following. The Seagull of the Land-Under-Waves, Caristiona, The Fairy's Love Song, The Mull-Fisher's Song, and The Coolins of Rum. Even on the net with so many resources I have had an extremely difficult time finding the verses for these songs. I have also come to the conclusion from what I have been able to find that this song is probably none of these. I would like to record this song with the melody I have created for it and let it be known by its true name rather than one I have had to invent. The lyrics are below. If anyone can identify this song I would be extremely grateful.

Melyssa

The wind from the island brings songs of our sorrows
The cry of the gulls and the sighing of streams;
In all of my dreaming, I'm hearing the waters
That flow from the hills in the land of our dreams.

Blow westward, O sea-wind, and bring us some murmur
Adrift from our homeland of honor and truth;
In waking and sleeping, I'm hearing the waters
That flow from the hills in the land of our youth.

We sing in this far land the songs of our exile,
The pipes and the harps are fair as before;
But never shall music run sweet as the waters
That flow in that land we shall never see more.