The Sweet South-Wind (Charles King Langley)

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• (Posted 2023-11-08)  CPDL #77111:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-11-08).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 443 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: The Sweet South-Wind
Composer: Charles King Langley
Lyricist: Eden Reeder Latta
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1887 D. W. Crist
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Original text and translations

English text

In the waning days of the autumn’s reign,
When the birds are southward going,
How remembrance brings us the time again,
When the sweet south-wind was blowing!

The sweet south-wind.
Its balmy breath bestowing!
The sweet south-wind!
I love to hear it blowing!

When the winter cold binds the earth in chains,
And the muffled streams are flowing,
How I long, in vain, for the soothing strains,
When the sweet south-wind is blowing!

When the gentle spring has unveiled her face,
And the greening grass is growing,
There’s a smile of joy, that our eyes may trace;
For the sweet south-wind is blowing!

How the farmer thinks, with a visage bright,
Of the harvest and the mowing;
And I wonder not that his heart is light,
When the sweet south-wind is blowing!