Happy by-gone days (Alexander S. Cooper)

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• (Posted 2023-10-05)  CPDL #76079:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-05).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 597 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: Happy by-gone days
Composer: Alexander S. Cooper
Lyricist: George John Bennett
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1876 Novello and Co.
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Original text and translations

English text

We’ll sing a song of bygone days
As hand in hand we rove,
When memory’s moonlight softly plays
Around the home we love.

And all that once was bright and fair
Shall waken to the view,
Ere life was shadowed with a care,
And lips and hearts were true.

When not a kindred tie was given
To dim the raptured gaze,
And Earth. a mirror seemed of Heaven,
In happy bygone days.

O happy days, sweet bygone days,
Your beauty still is ours,
We trace your old love haunted ways,
We cull your choicest flowers.

We call up dear familiar tones,
Each vacant seat we fill,
And all the souls most treasured ones
Are present with us still.

Their footsteps, like the angels, seem
Where memory’s moonlight plays;
’Tis bliss to linger then and dream
Of happy bygone days.