A perfect day (George A. Blackburn)

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• (Posted 2023-09-25)  CPDL #75717:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-09-25).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 379 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: A perfect day
Composer: George A. Blackburn
Lyricist: John Anderson Stewart^{create page}
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1909 J. Curwen & Sons
Description: 

Original text and translations

English text

The crimson trefoil decks the field,
The hedge is clad in snow-white May,
The gold of broom is every where,
The cloudless blue pours down the day.

Twin notes of Cuckoo haunt the vale,
The Lark’s gay rapture fills the sky;
The Copse out-breathes faint undertones
When summer winds go loitering by.

The fragrance of the clover blooms
Is blent with hawthorn-redolence;
It seems a land of All Delight,
Where joys enchant each separate sense.

Where sight and sound and odour join,
Three Sirens chanting one sweet lay:
“Lift up your eyes, Lift up your hearts,
It is a perfect Summer day!”