Sweet Spring is coming (Wm. T. Belcher )
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- Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-09-21). Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 622 kB Copyright: Personal
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Title: Sweet Spring is coming
Composer: Wm. T. Belcher
Lyricist: George Linnæus Banks
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1859 W. T. Belcher & H. J. Jewell
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Original text and translations
English text
Sweet Spring is coming—
Coming through the dell;
Zephyrs are humming
Winters long farewell;
Primroses springing,
Deck the verdant lea,
Glad birds are singing
On the hawthorn tree;
In mid-heaven shining,
Joy the Sun doth bring,
All life combining
Welcome in the Spring.
Sweet Spring is coming—
Coming o’er the wild;
Sweet Spring is coming
Like a fairy child.
Sweet Spring is coming—
Coming through the dell;
Young bees are humming,
Waiting the bluebell;
Buttercups golden
Peep adown the vale;
Violets, un-folden,
Scent the passing gale;
Blithely the Cuckoo
In the woods is heard,
Singing, “Cuckoo, cuckoo,”
Bless the wandering bird!
Sweet Spring is coming—
Coming in her pride;
Sweet Spring is coming
Like a blushing bride!