A Summer Love Dream (I Wish You Were By My Side) - Irish, arr. Harley

Based on a traditional Irish air "The Little Red Lark" from The Minstrelsy of Ireland, ed. Alfred Moffat (London: Augener & Co., 1897), p. 88. Words by Michael Hogan (The Bard of Thomond) (1828-1899). Arranged by Konrad Harley (1986-), 2024. Performed by Samuel Marques (bass clarinet) and Konrad Harley (piano). Score available at Sheet Music Plus: www.sheetmusicplus.com/en/pro...
Lyrics:
I dream of you in the flow'ring time,
When the summer is all a-glow,
And the kingly sun flings his heav'nly fire
On the blossoms that laugh below,
When the fairy birds like living harps
Give a voice to the woodland wide;
Then I dream of you as I walk along,
And I wish you were by my side.
I dream of you when the moonlight dew
Lies white on the glist'ning mead,
And the world with silent wonder looks up
At her beautiful sisters array'd,
And a honey-drop from the angel's feast
Seems in my soul to glide;
Then I dream of you at that lovely hour,
And wish you were by my side.
I'm ever in love, for my heart is fresh
With the dews of ethereal spring,
And my heart is dark with the magic wine
Of each beauteous brilliant thing,
And my banquet-hall is the dark green wood
With its bloom on the sunbeams dyed;
Oh, living rose of my charmèd soul,
I wish you were by my side.
I wish you were by my side,
I wish, Oh I wish,
I wish you were by my side.