A June Morning (William Yeates Hurlstone)

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• (Posted 2023-10-31)  CPDL #76851:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-31).   Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 667 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: A June Morning
Composer: William Yeates Hurlstone
Lyricist: Florence Gertrude Attenborough
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1902 Charles Woodhouse
Description: “A Musical Acrostic” on the name of friend and benefactor Captain Alexander Spink Beaumont (1843–1913).

Original text and translations

English text

To Captain A. S. Beaumont
(ACROSTIC)

Calm from her temple o’er a sleeping sea
Arises Dawn dew-lipped, and opal-eyed,
Pausing; anon on many a misty lea,
That dreaming wakes with vision satisfied:
Afar the woods grow lustrous, whilst the lark,
In quest of warm Eöus leaves his bed
Nearing the voiceless arch so lately dark
And singing as he soars, till faintly red,
Saluted morning lifts her light crowned head.
Breathing anew, the blossoms bless the wind
Enthroned o’er dimpled vales, and breasted hills;
All nature spreads, through pastures leafy-lined,
United graces; and the burnished rills
Make marriage music on a pebbled strand.
O happy, happy morning! June at last is here;
Nymphlike she wanders through the rose flushed land
Till others sing the rip’ning of the year.