2015-02-17

Love's old sweet song/ Seanamhráinín Grá

File: G. Clifton Bingham
Cumadóir: J.L. Molloy
Once in the dear dead days beyond recall.
When on the world the mists began to fall,
Out of the dreams that rose in happy throng
Low to our hearts love sang an old sweet song
And in the dusk where fell the firelight gleam
Softly it wove itself into our dream

Just a song at twilight
When the lights are low,
And the flickering shadows
Softly come and go
Though the heart be weary,
Sad the day and long,
Still to us at twilight comes love's old song
Comes love's old sweet song.

Even today we hear love's song of yore
Deep in our hearts it dwells forever more
Footsteps may falter, weary grows our way
Still we can hear it at the close of day
So till the end when life's dim shadows fall
Love will be found the sweetest song of all.

Just a song at twilight
When the lights are low,
And the flickering shadows
Softly come and go

Though the heart be weary,
Sad the day and long,
Still to us at twilight comes love's old song
Comes love's old sweet song.

Seanamhráinín Grá

Tráth in sna laethanta úd atá gan fáil
Nuair do thit an ceo ar an domhan ina scáil
As saol na n-aislingí uair, uair amháin, Chualamar os íseal an seanamhrán
Agus sa chróntráth fadó ó fadó
Bhí an t-amhrán sin mar chuid dár mbrionglóid.

Amhráinín tráthnóna is an domhan faoi scáil,
Is na scátha’ ag preabadh,
'léim abhus is thall,
Tá an croí go tnáite is is fada an lá
Fós sa chróntráth tagann
amhráinín grá
Sean-amhráinín grá.
br/> Fós ’dtí inniu is clos an seanamhrán
Sa chroí istigh a mhaireann sé faoi bhláth,
Lag í an choiscéim, is tuirsiúil é an ród
Ach cloistear fós é, mar a bhí fadó.
Go dtí an chríoch – nuair nach mbeidh ann ach ceo –
Mairfidh an grá is mairfidh sé go deo.

Amhráinín tráthnóna is an domhan faoi scáil,
Is na scátha’ ag preabadh,
’ léim abhus is thall,
Tá an croí go tnáite is is fada an lá
Fós sa chróntráth tagann amhráinín grá
Sean-amhráinín grá.