Glen Collection of printed music > Printed music > Minstrelsy of Ireland

25
before tbe sun rose at \>ceter oawn.
PULSE OF MY HEART.
Voice.
Piano.
Andantlno,
Translated from the Irish by Edward Walsh.
con Ped
con semprc. Ped.
e£
1. yes - tor dawn, I
2. hearts hath won, Than
met
Or
a fair maid
phe - lis' lyre
a
of
down
old
the lawn : The
had done ; Her
:a=p:
w—n
at
SSe
=siM>-
1. ber - ry and snow to her cheek gave its glow, And her
2. ripe eyes of blue were crys -tals of dew, On the
brow was as fair as the
grass of the lawn, be -
* T
1. sail
2. -fore
r-
=F
con esprtss.
mm
=t
ing
the
Then
And,
pulse
pulse
of my
of my
heart !
heart !
what gloom
what "loom
=t
Mr
f
IS
is
thine?
thine ?
-J J :
M^£^
t=^
Dr. Petrie gives two versions of this air .in his Ancient Music of Ireland, 1855, the one noted from the singing of a Clare
peasant, the other, which may be regarded as the Connaught form of the air, obtained from a Cork musician of the name of
william Ford, who made a tour in the western counties in 1846-7 for the purpose of collecting Irish melodies. I have adopted
the Clare version as being the best. Alluding to this tune Dr. P. W. Joyce observes in Irish Music and Sony, 1888, that it is well
known among the peasantry in every part of the country, and that in disturbed times it was very generally seleetedas the air
of the Whiteboys or Ribbonmen songs — or " treason songs," as they were called. Dr. Joyce remembers hearing in his youth
fragments of several of them. I have taken the verses from Walsh's Irish Popular Songs, 1847 ; they are translated from an
Irish song which Petrie considers to have been written to the air.