A Sunny Shaft Did I Behold (Charles Harford Lloyd)
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- Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-11-09). Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 517 kB Copyright: Personal
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Title: A Sunny Shaft Did I Behold
Composer: Charles Harford Lloyd
Lyricist: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1890 Novello, Ewer, and Co.
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Original text and translations
English text
A Sunny shaft did I behold,
From sky to earth it slanted:
And poised therein a bird so bold—
Sweet bird, thou wert enchanted!
He sank, he rose, he twinkled, he trolled
Within that shaft of sunny mist;
His eyes of fire, his beak of gold,
All else of amethyst!
And thus he sang: ‘Adieu! adieu!
Love’s dreams prove seldom true.
The blossoms they make no delay:
The sparkling dew-drops will not stay.
Sweet month of May,
We must away;
Far, far away!
To-day! to-day!’
Zapolya: A Christmas Tale (1816)