In the Faëry Hills, to which the composer gave the alternative Irish title An Suagh Sidhe, is a symphonic poem by Arnold Bax.
[2] He wrote in a programme note for the work that he had sought "to suggest the revelries of the 'Hidden People' in the inmost deeps and hollow hills of Ireland".
by your beard, they wept, Until one came, a tearful boy; "A sadder creature never stept Than this strange human bard," he cried; And caught the silver harp away, And, weeping over the white strings, hurled It down in a leaf-hid, hollow place That kept dim waters from the sky; And each one said, with a long, long sigh, "O saddest harp in all the world, Sleep there till the moon and the stars die!
[2] The central section has been seen by the commentators Lewis Foreman and Marshall Walker as inspired by the moment when Oisin is caught up by the immortals in their wild dance.
The Manchester Guardian's reviewer wrote, "Mr Bax has happily suggested the appropriate atmosphere of mystery";[6] The Observer found the piece "very undeterminate and unsatisfying, but not difficult to follow".