The Lament of Ian the Proud

The Lament of Ian the Proud

From: Three Poems of Fiona MacLeod
By: Griffes
Voice Type(s): Baritone,Tenor,Mezzo,Soprano

Melody
G ♭/F ♯
Full
G ♭/F ♯

The Lament of Ian the Proud 

What is this crying that I hear in the wind?
Is it the old sorrow and the old grief? 
Or is it a new thing coming, a whirling leaf
About the gray hair of me who am weary and blind?
I know not what it is, but on the moor above the shore
There is a stone which the purple nets of heather bind,
And thereon is writ: She will return no more.
O blown, whirling leaf, and the old grief,
And wind crying to me who am old and blind!