of peace, – nay, of sense, deprive me, 'Since yet the holy work's undone.' The sage, the wand'rer's anguish balming, Soothed her heart to rest once more; And pardon's promise torture calming, The Pilgrim told her sorrows o'er. The first writer, after Petrie's publication, to set verses to the tune was Alfred Perceval Graves, in the late 1870s. His song was entitled "Would I Were Erin's Apple Blossom o'er You". Graves later stated "that setting was, to my mind, too much in the style of church music, and was not, I believe, a success in consequence." Would I were Erin's apple-blossom o'er you, Or Erin's rose, in all its beauty blown, To drop my richest petals down before you, Within the garden where you walk alone; In hope you'd turn and pluck a little posy, With loving fingers through my foliage pressed, And kiss it close and set it blushing rosy To sigh out all its sweetness on your breast. Irish Love Song Katherine Tynan Hinkson published the words of "Irish Love Song" in 1892. Graves set these words to the tune in his 1894 Irish Song Book, where the tune was first referred to descriptively as "Londonderry Air" (unlike the names of properly-titled airs in the songbook, "Londonderry Air" was not placed in quotation marks). Would God I were the tender apple blossom That floats and falls from off the twisted bough To lie and faint within your silken bosom Within your silken bosom as that does now. Or would I were a little burnish'd apple For you to pluck me, gliding by so cold, While sun and shade your robe of lawn will dapple, Your robe of lawn and your hair of spun gold. Hymns As with a good many folk tunes, Londonderry Air is also used as a hymn tune; most notably for "I cannot tell" by William Young Fullerton. I cannot tell why He Whom angels worship, Should set His love upon the sons of men, Or why, as Shepherd, He should seek the wanderers, To bring them back, they know not how or when. But this I know, that He was born of Mary When Bethlehem’s manger was His only home, And that He lived at Nazareth and laboured, And so the Saviour, Saviour of the world is come. It was also used as a setting for "I would be true" by Howard Arnold Walter