A Spring song (Ciro Pinsuti)

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  • (Posted 2023-11-28)  CPDL #77677:     
Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-11-28).   Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 632 kB   Copyright: Personal
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  • (Posted 2019-08-08)  CPDL #55009:         
Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2019-08-08).   Score information: A4, 9 pages, 148 kB   Copyright: CPDL
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General Information

Title: A Spring song

Composer: Ciro Pinsuti
Lyricist: George Spencer Cautley

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: SecularPartsong

Language: English
Instruments: a cappella or Keyboard

First published: 1872 in Novello's Part-Song Book (2nd series), Vol. 5, no. 174
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Original text and translations

English.png English text

from the Afterglow (1867)

1  I sat beneath the Abeles old,
The meads were shot with green and gold,
And underneath my feet there rolled
The little silvery Gad:
The cuckoo and the thrush were singing,
The sheep bells on the hills were ringing,
All life was gay and glad!

Template:Vs!2 The busy babbling waterfall
Melodiously kept time to all,
The rich May music mystical,
Toned to the freshening air;
Each ripening bud that open flies,
Seemed gasping with a gay surprise,
To greet the world so fair!

3  O lovely, lovely, lovely Spring!
O robed in sunbeams! bridegroom, king!
Breathe on my heart and bid me sing,
Or rather praise and pray;
For emblems are these sunny, hours,
These golden meads, and stream, and flowers,
Of everlasting May!