2015-01-31

Silent Worship/ Adhradh Ciúin

File: Ní fios cé a chum
(Bunaithe ar théacs le Carlo Sigismondo Capece)
Cumadóir: Georg Friedrich Händel
Ag canadh léi sa ghairdín,
Tost ar an lon ’s an chéirseach
Ar chlos an mhacalla álainn

Ó nár léir duit ise
Is í ag siúl léi féin
Deise í ná rós ná lile
Ná gaetha ón ngréin.

Cé nach eol di cé mé
Cé nach bhféachann i mo threo
Is cé nach leomhfainn é a rá
Beidh grá agam di go deo.

Chuala tú cinnte an aoileann
Ag canadh léi sa ghairdín
Tost ar na héinín’ uile
Ag fuaim an mhacalla álainn

Ach cinnte is léir an aoileann
Is í ag siúl léi féin
Ag iomaíocht le gile neimhe
'S a folt óir mar dheora gréin’!
Did you not hear My Lady
Go down the garden singing
Blackbird and thrush were silent
To hear the alleys ringing...

Oh saw you not My Lady
Out in the garden there
Shaming the rose and lily
For she is twice as fair.

Though I am nothing to her
Though she must rarely look at me
And though I could never woo her
I love her till I die.

Surely you heard My Lady
Go down the garden singing
Silencing all the songbirds
And setting the alleys ringing...

But surely you see My Lady
Out in the garden there
Rivaling the glittering sunshine
With a glory of golden hair.