"The Moon hath raised her lamp above" was, with "Excelsior!" one of the most popular duets for tenor and bass.Menophanes wrote:As we have discussed Balfe's Bohemian Girl and Wallace's Maritana, perhaps I may mention the third component of what was facetiously called 'The English Ring': The Lily of Killarney by the German-born Julius Benedict. Although this was considerably more recent than the other two (it was first produced in 1862), it seems to have suffered the earliest and most complete lapse into obscurity of the three; all that is usually heard, even on old records, is the tenor-and-bass duet 'The moon hath raised her lamp above' (or, as British basses would often render it, 'Thoh moon hoth roizd hor lomp obov').
Oliver Mundy.
I like them both, and no Victorian or Edwardian musical evening would have been complete without at least one of them