The mountaineer’s return (George J. Webb)

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• (Posted 2024-02-28)  CPDL #79311:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2024-02-28).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 431 kB   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: Verse two added editorially.

General Information

Title: The mountaineer’s return
Composer: George J. Webb
Lyricist: Basil Bruce^{create page}
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1843 J. H. Wilkins and R. B. Carter
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Original text and translations

English text

“Back, back, to the hills,
Where the wild deer is bounding;
To the forests and glens,
Where the blue streams are sounding;
No more of the city—
No more of the plain—
Oh, welcome the breath of
The mountains again!

I have sighed, I have pined
For my own mountain-home,
Till hope died within me—
I come! now I come!
Oh bitter is exile
Where mourning is vain,
But it doubles the transport
Of meeting again.

I come!—And oh, chide not
The absent so long,
If his spirit, uncaged,
Spread its pinions in song!
It hath burst from its prison—
Hath broken its chain—
Now welcome the free wilds
And mountains again!”