Golden Days (John Liptrot Hatton)

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• (Posted 2023-10-26)  CPDL #76694:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-26).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 312 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: Golden Days
Composer: John Liptrot Hatton
Lyricist: Mathias Fritschler Barr
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1872 Lamborn Cock & Co.
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English text

Oh, give me back the golden days,
The days when I was young–
The happy thoughts, the guileless heart,
The songs my mother sung.
And give me back the hopes, the dreams
Youth only can bestow,
The loving smiles, the tender looks,
And friends of long ago.

This flower I love, though withered all,
Some fragrance yet retains;
In each poor leaf a glory tint
Of beauty still remains.
So like this flower our dreams may die,
And all we love depart,
And yet the sweetness that hath been
Will never leave the heart.