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Daughter of Colla! thou art low!"
Language: English 
"Daughter of Colla! thou art low!" 
said Cairbar's hundred bards. 
"Silence is at the blue streams of Seláma. 
Truthil's race have failed. 

When wilt thou rise in thy beauty, 
first of Erin's maids? 
Thy sleep is long in the tomb. 
The morning distant far. 

The sun shall not come 
to thy bed and say, Awake, 
Dar-thula! awake, 
thou first of women! 
the wind of spring is abroad. 

The flowers shake their heads 
on the green hills. 
The woods wave 
their growing leaves. 

Retire, O sun!
the daughter of Colla is asleep. 
She will not come forth in her beauty. 
She will not move in the steps of her loveliness."

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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

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Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

  • Also set in Finnish (Suomi), a translation by Yrjö Veijola (1875 - 1930) ; composed by Erkki Gustaf Melartin.
  • Also set in German (Deutsch), adapted by Johann Gottfried Herder (1744 - 1803) , "Darthulas Grabgesang", subtitle: "Aus Ossian" ; composed by Johannes Brahms, Wilhelm Hill, Adolf Jensen, Hans Georg Nägeli, Karl Sigmund Freiherr von Seckendorff, Wilhelm Taubert.
  • Also set in Swedish (Svenska), a translation by Johan Ludvig Runeberg (1804 - 1877) , "Darthulas grafsång", subtitle: "Af Ossian" ; composed by Erkki Gustaf Melartin.

Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2003-11-04
Line count: 21
Word count: 109