How sweet is summer morning (Henry Thomas Smart)
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- (Posted 2019-10-30) CPDL #55785:
- Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2019-10-30). Score information: A4, 6 pages, 98 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score.
General Information
Title: How sweet is summer morning
Composer: Henry Thomas Smart
Lyricist: William Smallcombe Passmore
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1875 in Novello's Part-Song Book (2nd series), Vol. 8, no. 258
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Original text and translations
English text
1 How sweet is summer morning,
When dewdrops gem the ground,
Distilling sweetest fragrance
The balmy air around;
When every word resoundeth
With song-birds' matin lays,
The voice of Nature lifting
Her great Creator's praise.
2 The sun of summer morning,
How joyously he soars,
As over mead and mountain
His gorgeous radiance pours;
Then quick at heavens bright portals,
The lark his strain doth raise,
And mingles earth-born music
With angels' sacred praise!