The Winter is past (Edgar Bainton)

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• (Posted 2023-09-18)  CPDL #75487:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-09-18).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 303 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: The Winter is past
Composer: Edgar Bainton
Lyricist: Robert Burns
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong, Folksong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1910 Novello and Co.
Description: Scottish folk song; Bainton sets only the first two stanzas of Burns’ poem.

Original text and translations

English text

The winter it is past,
And the summer comes at last
And the small birds sing on ev’ry tree;
The hearts of these are glad,
But mine is very sad,
For my lover has parted from me.

The rose upon the brier,
By the waters running clear,
May have charms for the linnet or the bee;
Their little loves are blest,
And their little hearts at rest,
For (But) my lover has parted from me.

(last two stanzas not included in Bainton’s setting)

My love in like the sun
In the firmament does run—
Forever is constant and true;
But his is like the moon,
That wanders up and down,
And every month it is new.

All you that are in love,
And cannot it remove,
I pity the pains you endure,
For experience makes me know
That your hearts are full of woe,
A woe that no mortal can cure.