In a drear-nighted December (John Pointer)

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• (Posted 2023-11-29)  CPDL #77693:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-11-29).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 367 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: In a drear-nighted December
Composer: John Pointer
Lyricist: John Keats
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1902 Novello and Co.
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Original text and translations

English text

In drear nighted December,
Too happy, happy tree,
Thy branches ne’er remember
Their green felicity:
The north cannot undo them
With a sleety whistle through them;
Nor frozen thawings glue them
From budding at the prime.

In drear-nighted December,
Too happy, happy brook,
Thy bubblings ne’er remember
Apollo’s summer look;
But with a sweet forgetting,
They stay their crystal fretting,
Never, never petting
About the frozen time.

Ah! would ‘twere so with many
A gentle girl and boy!
But were there ever any
Writhed not of passed joy?
To know the change and feel it,
When there is none to heal it
Nor numbed sense to steel it,
Was never said in rhyme.