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Macha May
Macha May
1836
Chorus
Chorus.
Chorus
Chorus
Illustration no. 2
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Illustration no. 3
Intermezzo I
Midnight
In the wide plains sleeps sound the pale moon's argent light,
Darkness is on the hills, the lake with stars is bright.
A hillock by the lake-shore rises,
A stake thereon, a wheel raised lightly,
Whereon a bleached skull glistens whitely,
While ghostly rout a dance devises,
About the high wheel revelling rightly.
Chorus of Phantoms
A Voice
Voice
Chorus of Phantoms
Voice
Fly, voice, across the fields with power!
At midnight is the funeral hour.
His votive gift let each make known!
Night
Light Breezes
St John's Fireflies
Time
Voice
Illustration no. 4
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Illustration no. 5
Intermezzo II
Illustration no. 6
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Far I went through the world-and the world has enough of pain,
Many a storm of heart blew over me and bled me;
But still this old, worn woe beckoned me back again,
Till in a young Spring season home to the mound it led me.
Under the stake I sat, just as the sun descended,
Under the wheel which bore the skeleton and skull there,
Gazing sad-eyed on Spring, whose cup was fair and full there,
Even to the misty rim where earth and heaven blended.