Mary of Argyle (Samuel M. Bixby)

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• (Posted 2023-09-25)  CPDL #75714:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-09-25).   Score information: Letter, 10 pages, 561 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: Mary of Argyle
Composer: Samuel M. Bixby
Lyricist: Charles Jeffreys
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1909 S. M. Bixby & Co.
Description: Arrangement of song by English composer Sydney Nelson (1800–1862).

Original text and translations

English text

I have heard the mavis singing
His love-song to the morn;
I have seen the dewdrops clinging
To the rose just newly born;
But a sweeter song has cheered me
At the evening’s gentle close,
And I’ve seen an eye still brighter
Than the dewdrop on the rose;
’Twas thy voice, my gentle Mary,
And thine artless, winning smile,
That made this world an Eden,
Bonny Mary of Argyle.

Tho’ thy voice may lose its sweetness,
And thine eye its brightness, too,
Tho’ thy step may lack its fleetness,
And thy hair its sunny hue,
Still to me wilt thou be dearer
Than all the world shall own;
I have lov’d thee for thy beauty,
But not for that alone;
I have watch’d thy heart, dear Mary,
And its goodness was the wile,
That has made thee mine forever,
Bonny Mary of Argyle.