Annotation:Silent O' Moyle
SILENT O' MOYLE. AKA - "Silent Oh Moyle." AKA and see "My Dear Eveleen." Irish, Air (whole time). C Major (Scanlon): F Major (Riley). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. "Silent O Moyle" is a song by Thomas Moore set to the air "My Dear Eveleen, printed in his Irish Melodies, No. ii (1808-1834) with the title "Song of Fionnula". The words go:
Silent, oh Moyle, be the roar of thy water,
Break not, ye breezes, your chain of repose,
While, murmuring mournfully, Lir's lonely daughter
Tells to the night-star her tale of woes.
When shall the swan, her death-note singing,
Sleep, with wings in darkness furl'd?
When will heav'n, its sweet bell ringing,
Call my spirit from this stormy world?
Sadly, oh Moyle, to thy winter-wave weeping,
Fate bids me languish long ages away;
Yet still in her darkness doth Erin lie sleeping,
Still doth the pure light its dawning delay.
When will that day-star, mildly springing,
Warm our isle with peace and love?
When will heav'n, its sweet bell ringing,
Call my spirit to the fields above?
