Farewell! (Paul David)

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• (Posted 2023-10-09)  CPDL #76165:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-09).   Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 537 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Farewell!
Composer: Paul David
Lyricist: Edward Thring
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1889 J. Curwen & Sons
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Original text and translations

English text

Farewell! the nevermore has come, the nevermore;
In boyhood’s fairyland, I ween,
With Fancy, boyhood’s fairy queen,
On life’s great shore,
To stand, and work, and dream,
The old school bell now rings your knell.

Then welcome bolder life, wide air, and larger scope,
A bonny welcome, bonny world,
A bonny light on sails unfurled,
Oh! welcome hope,
Then go, then go the while,
Our voices meet and swell in blithe farewell.

Farewell! yet wheresoe’er you go, we breathe a spell,
A thousand sprites at our command,
’Twixt you and us, from fairyland,
Brook no farewell,
The good old days live on,
They shall not be, not be for got.