Annotation:Little Harvest Rose (The)

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LITTLE HARVEST ROSE, THE (Ros Beag An Fogmair). Irish, Air or Planxty (4/4 time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The composition is included in a section of tunes credited to blind Irish harper Turlough O'Carolan (1678-1736) by O'Neill. Thomas Moore set his song "In the Morning of Life" (Irish Melodies, vol. 6) to this tune. A song by the title "Little Harvest Rose", dated c. 1745, appears in 's . It begins:

There's a ripple in the waters of our four wide seas;
There's a murmur on the mountains, like at dawning hour;
There's a whisper 'mong the ash trees, as they shake their keys,
And a thrill stirs all the sleepin gland with wond'rous power.
For, the sowing time is coming, with its lingering days,
When the fields no longer slumber 'neath the winter snows,
When we'll plant the Tree of Liberty, 'mid hymns of praise,
And greet, again, our long-lost, little Harvest Rose!

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Bunting (The General Collection of the Ancient Irish Music, vol. 1), 1796; No. 43, p. 24. O'Neill (Krassen), 1976; p. 232. O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903; No. 646, p. 116.

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