Tewkesbury Road (Edward Sweeting)

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• (Posted 2023-12-12)  CPDL #78149:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-12-12).   Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 650 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Tewkesbury Road
Composer: Edward Sweeting
Lyricist: John Masefield
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1920 Novello and Co.
Description: 

Original text and translations

English text

It is good to be out on the road, and going one knows not where,
Going through meadow and village, one knows not whither or why;
Through the grey light drift of the dust, in the keen cool rush of the air,
Under the flying white clouds, and the broad blue lift of the sky.

And to halt at the chattering brook, in a tall green fern at the brink
Where the harebell grows, and the gorse, and the foxgloves purple and white;
Where the shy-eyed delicate deer troop down to the brook to drink°
When the stars are mellow and large at the coming on of the night.

O, to feel the beat of the rain, and the homely smell of the earth,
Is a tune for the blood to jig to, a joy past power of words;
And the blessed green comely meadows are all a-ripple with mirth
At the noise of the lambs at play and the dear wild cry of the birds.

John Masefield (1878–1967)

° Novello publication has “Where the shy-eyed delicate deer come down in a troop to drink”;
most other sources have “deer troop down to the brook to drink”;
one source has “deer troop down to the pools to drink”;
one source has “the shifty-eyed delicate deer”.