Previous posts for May 28th are available here: György Ligeti (2019), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (2020), and Riccardo Zandonai (2021)
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Thomas Moore (28 May 1779 – 25 February 1852) was an Irish writer, poet, and lyricist celebrated for his Irish Melodies.
Moore Is Less
Hazlitt observed that "if Moore's Irish Melodies with their drawing-room, lackadaisical, patriotism were really the melodies of the Irish nation, the Irish people deserve to be slaves forever". It was a judgement later generations of Irish writers appeared to share. – Wikipedia
Thomas Moore took Irish songs
And fitted verses to them,
Which then were sung by Irish throngs
'Til everybody knew them.
The “stilly night,” or “Tara’s halls,”
Or summer’s final rose,
Are tropes each Irishman recalls,
Each Irish woman knows.
But no one grasps the reasons why
The Irish nation nurses
The temperament to dignify
Such namby-pamby verses.
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