The Lake Isle of Innisfree
Vin Reilly
A new setting of W. B. Yeats' "The Lake Isle of Innisfree". There is something uniquely moving in the original hymn tune "Restoration," out of "The Southern Harmony." Adapting it emphasized to me the poem's emotional depth. The poet …
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A new setting of W. B. Yeats' "The Lake Isle of Innisfree". There is something uniquely moving in the original hymn tune "Restoration," out of "The Southern Harmony." Adapting it emphasized to me the poem's emotional depth. The poet writes like one hoping to escape loud and restless modern life, who finds solace in the thought of living alone in a cabin, where the quiet is interrupted only by the sound of honeybees in the glade outside. A soul tired and demoralized, ready to exchange that life for a blessed one here or hereafter, hears a call to this life in paradise, even a longing for Heaven, which grows until he can not wait another moment to seek it – "I will arise and go now," the poet says, because "I hear it in the deep heart's core."