Springtime (Percival Wood Hulbert)

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(Posted 2023-10-31) CPDL #76834:

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-31). Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 749 kB Copyright: Personal

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Title: Springtime
Composer: Percival Wood Hulbert
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Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: ca. 1905 Bayley & Ferguson
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Original text and translations

English text

When the Springtime comes, warm sunshine, balmy breeze;
The primrose, violet, lily, and heartsease,
The hyacinth, the buttercup, and daisy now deck, now deck the field,
And all the charms of Nature pleasure yield.
The lark soars heavenward, building low her nest,
While Nature’s chorus sings with force and zest.
The cock’s shrill clarion, shrill clarion and the cooing dove,
And the birds and beasts rejoicing tell, their love;
And sport and play, and chase each one its mate,
Then you and I with pow’rs renew’d, reviv’d, after the cold drear winter recreate
Ourselves, too, seek the woods contriv’d to clothe the bare earth, and shelter man and beast,
and shade from heat, and food to all supply,
There, there, on the sweets of eye and sense to feast.