My cottage home (Jairus Maxson Stillman)

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• (Posted 2024-04-12)  CPDL #80207:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2024-04-12).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 437 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: My cottage home
Composer: Jairus Maxson Stillman
Lyricist: Mary B. Clark^{create page}
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1874 Root & Lewis
Description: 

Original text and translations

English text

Oh, my cottage home is lovely,
A place of joy and light;
Though it be not castle olden,
Nor palace gleaming bright;
Though it hath not dim old chambers
Hung round with paintings rare,
Which the olden masters penciled,
With nicest taste and care.

Oh, my cottage home, my cottage home,
My beautiful cottage home;
The world is wide, but my joy and pride
Are still in my cottage home.

Where the south wind bloweth softly,
Where speed the golden hours,
There my lovely home is lying
Asleep amid the flowers;
And the pale, pure jasmine twineth
Its pillars mossy brown,
And the clinging wild-rose lineth
Them all with crimson down.

Now the voice of true love singing
From open porch is herd,
And the laugh of joy is ringing,
Like carol of a bird;
If it hath not all earth’s splendors,
’Tis very bright and fair;
O ’tis richer than a palace,
For happy hearts are there.