They know not my heart (Charles Villiers Stanford)

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• (Posted 2024-03-07)  CPDL #79427:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2024-03-07).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 504 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: They know not my heart
Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford
Lyricist: Thomas Moore
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong, Folksong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1922 J. Curwen & Sons
Description: Six Irish Airs (4)

AIR: COULIN DHAS

Original text and translations

English text

They know not my heart, who believe there can be
One stain of this earth in its feelings for thee;
Who think, while I see thee in beauty’s young hour,
As pure as the morning’s first dew on the flower,
I could harm what I love, as the sun’s wanton ray
But smiles on the dewdrop to waste it away.

No, beaming with light as those young features are,
There’s a light round thy heart which is lovelier far:
It is not that cheek, ’tis the soul drawing clear
Thro’ its innocent blush makes thy beauty so dear;
As the sky we look up to, though glorious and fair,
Is looked up to the more because Heaven lies there.