Enchantment (Mabel Wheeler Daniels)

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• (Posted 2023-10-09)  CPDL #76162:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-09).   Score information: Letter, 20 pages, 1.11 MB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Enchantment
Composer: Mabel Wheeler Daniels
Lyricist: Isabel Ecclestone Mackay
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: Piano

First published: 1908 Arthur P. Schmidt
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Original text and translations

English text

Oh, Summer! Oh, the Summer!
Glowing, blowing
Flowers in the sun!
Oh, the warmth and sweetness, knowing
That the Winter’s done!
Spring is just behind us dying,
Autumn just before and flying,
Flying are the days,— no sighing
Can recall them one.

Oh, Summer! Oh, the Summer!
Swift the breaking
Of early dawn
Comes the sudden sun awaking
All it breathes upon.
Sweet the bobolink’s clear calling,
Sweet, oh sweet the lark’s note falling,
Through the blue, the day installing
With the rite of song!

Oh, Summer!
The long fading
Of the laggard light!
Crimson, gold and purple shading
Slowly into night
Where the earth and sky are meeting
Day and dark exchange soft greeting,
Perfect moments!
Fleeting, fleeting,
Sweetest in their flight!