My Gentle Harp Piano, Vocal - Digital Sheet Music

SKU: A0.1519955

Based on a melody by an unknown composer, from English Minstrelsy, ed. S. Baring-Gould (Edinburgh: T. C. & E. C. Jack, 1895), Vol. II, p. 6.
Arranged by Konrad Harley (1986-), 2024.

My gentle Harp, once more I waken
The sweetness of thy slumbering strain;
In tears our last farewell was taken,
And now in tears we meet again.
For who can ask for notes of pleasure,
My drooping Harp, from chords like thine?
Alas, the lark's gay morning measure
As ill would suit the swan's decline!

But come -- if yet thy frame can borrow
One breath of joy, oh, breathe for me,
And show the world, in chains and sorrow,
How sweet thy music still can be;
How gaily, even 'mid gloom surrounding,
Thou yet canst wake at pleasure's thrill --
Like Memnon's broken image sounding,
'Mid desolation tuneful still!
-Words by Thomas Moore (1779-1852).