Familiar Songs - Their Authors & Histories
300 traditional songs, inc sheet music with full piano accompaniment & lyrics.
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OUR FAMILIAR SONGS. |
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THE HARP THAT ONCE THRO' TARA'S HALLS.
About nine hundred years before Christ, Ollav Fola, King of Ireland, founded schools of philosophy, astronomy, poetry, medicine, and history. He also organized a species of parliament, by a triennial assemblage of chiefs, priests, and bards, at Teamor, or Tara, and the record of their laws was called " The Psalter of Tara." Thomas Moore's song of the glories of his country's past, calls to mind the lines of Oliver Wendell Holmes on the death of Moore: |
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" Shine soft, ye trembling tears of light That strew the mourning skies; Hushed in the silent dews of night, The Harp of Erin lies. |
What though her thousand years have past,
Of poets, saints, and kings,— Her echoes only hear the last
That swept those golden strings." |
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"The Harp that once through Tara's Halls," is set to the plaintive old air of " Grammachree." |
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