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24 Oct 09 - 02:33 PM (#2751824) Subject: Tune Req: Oh may the fields that hide the hare From: Thompson Has anyone come across this verse, quoted in the book Ireland 1851-1921, and also in The Conquered by Naomi Mitchison, and would you know its tune? Oh may the fields that hide the hare Hide well our hunted men As scattered rocks conceal the fox And smallest trees the wren, And by the cart-wheel's crushing track The sky-lark knows no fears - In vain, God grant, may England hunt The Irish Volunteers. (It's named as 'From an Irish Song of 1920-21.) A second verse is quoted in The Conquered: Oh may the winter be a spring About them where they hide Oh may by night the stars be bright Their silent feet to guide May streams with fish and boughs with fruit Be teeming through the years And every field a harvest yield To the Irish Volunteers. |
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13 Jun 11 - 08:44 PM (#3170170) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Oh may the fields that hide the hare From: Thompson This is also referenced in an article by one Malins in Jstor, a piece on Yeats and the Easter Rising; unfortunately I don't have access to Jstor, which takes a snobbish attitude to non-academics, keeping out those of us who are woorkers. |
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14 Jun 11 - 03:23 PM (#3170596) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Oh may the fields that hide the hare From: GUEST,mg awesome lyrics |