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The Immortal Hour, Act I Scene 1: No. 11, Fair Is the Moonlight (Etain)
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Classical
The Immortal Hour, Act I Scene 1: No. 11, Fair Is the Moonlight (Etain) was released on January 1, 1984 by Hyperion as a part of the album Rutland Boughton: The Immortal Hour
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Release DateJanuary 1, 1984
LabelHyperion
Melodicness
Acousticness
Valence
Danceability
Energy

Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS
Anne Dawson
Anne Dawson
Soprano
Alan G. Melville
Alan G. Melville
Conductor
English Chamber Orchestra
English Chamber Orchestra
Orchestra
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Rutland Boughton
Rutland Boughton
Composer
Fiona Macleod
Fiona Macleod
Lyrics

Lyrics

(Etain wanders into view, looking lost and bewildered)
Etain: Fair is the moonlight and fair the wood,
But not so fair as the place I come from.
Why did I leave it, the beautiful country,
Where Death is only a drifting shadow?
O face of Love, of Dream and Longing,
There is sorrow upon me that I am here.
I will go back to the Country of the Young
And see again the lances of the Shee,
As they keep their hosting with laughing cries
In pale places under the moon.
(Etain turns and walks slowly away. She stops as she hears a peculiar cry from the wood. She turns, startled)
None made that cry who has not known the Shee.
Written by: Fiona Macleod, Rutland Boughton
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