Our barque upon the stream (Clara H. Scott)

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• (Posted 2023-12-06)  CPDL #77899:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-12-06).   Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 802 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: Our barque upon the stream
Composer: Clara H. Scott
Lyricist: Mary O. Page
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1883 John Church & Co.
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Original text and translations

English text

We’ve been toiling all the day,
Gathering in the new-made hay,
Now we’ll blithely launch our barque upon the stream,
With our loved ones by our side,
Down the glassy stream we glide,
While the moon looks down with kind caressing beam,

While the moon looks down with gentle beam,
We’ve been toiling all the day,
Now we’ll cast all care away,
We have blithely launched our barque upon the stream.

Hours like these to us are sweet,
Serve to make each life complete,
Hours that come like sweet repose when day is o’er,
And our hearts grow warm and young,
Wit will flow from tongue to tongue,
When we leave all care behind us on the shore,

Oh, ’tis not the millionaire
With his feverish life of care,
That can ever keep his heart so light and free,
But the yeoman of the soil
Learns amid his honest toil,
Sweet content, to him a greater legacy,