Spring and Autumn (John Thomas)

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• (Posted 2023-12-13)  CPDL #78173:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-12-13).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 526 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: Spring and Autumn
Composer: John Thomas
Lyricist: Thomas Moore
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1871 Lamborn Cock & Co.
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Original text and translations

English text

Every season hath its pleasures;
Spring may boast her flowery prime,
Yet the vineyard’s ruby treasures
Brighten Autumn’s soberer time.
So Life’s year begins and closes;
Days tho’ shortening still can shine;
What tho’ youth gave love and roses,
Age still leaves us friends and wine.

Phillis, when she might have caught me,
All the Spring looked coy and shy,
Yet herself in Autumn sought me,
When the flowers were all gone by.
Ah, too late;— she found her lover
Calm and free beneath his vine,
Drinking to the Spring-time over,
In his best autumnal wine.

Thus may we, as years are flying,
To their flight our pleasures suit,
Nor regret the blossoms dying,
While we still may taste the fruit.
Oh, while days like this are ours,
Where’s the lip that dares repine?
Spring may take our loves and flow’rs,
So Autumn leaves us friends and wine.