The Stars Stand Up in the Air - PolyU Choir 23rd AP - 星圖 Planisphere

HKPUSU Choir 23rd AP - 星圖 Planisphere
The Stars Stand Up in the Air
曲/Music: Eric William Barnum
詞/Lyrics: Thomas MacDonaugh
編曲/Arrangement: Eric William Barnum
指揮/Conductor: 張佳駒先生 Mr. Cheung Kai Kui, Snoopy
伴奏/Accompanist: 徐康華 Tsui Hong Wa
歌詞來自愛爾蘭詩人Thomas MacDonaugh的同名作品，講述主角被他心愛的女子拋棄但無法忘記她，令他沉淪於傷痛之中無法脫離。歌曲上透過不斷轉換速度用以表達主角內心上的矛盾，此外亦加插一段無伴奏合唱描繪主角對愛情產生絕望的感覺。
The lyrics come from the poem with the same name by an Irish poet Thomas MacDonaugh. It was a story about the pain after being abandoned by a man’s beloved one. The conflicts inside the man were portrayed with the continuous changes of a tempo of the piece. An a capella section was added to depicts the despair towards love.
Lyrics:
The stars up in the air
The sun and the moon are gone
The strand of its waters is bare
And her sway is swept from the swan
The cuckoo was calling all day
Hid in the branches above
How my stóirín is fled away
’Tis my grief that I gave her my love
Three things through love I see
Sorrow and sin and death
And my mind reminding me
That this doom I breathe with my breath
But sweeter than violin or lute
Is my love-and she left me behind
I wish that all music were mute
And I to all beauty were blind
She’s more shapely than swan by the strand
She’s more radiant than grass after dew
She’s more fair than the stars where they stand
’Tis my grief that her ever I knew!
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