Water-lilies (Luther Orlando Emerson)
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- Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2024-03-05). Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 373 kB Copyright: Personal
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General Information
Title: Water-lilies
Composer: Luther Orlando Emerson
Lyricist: A. W. Frenchcreate page
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1899 Chicago Music Co.
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Original text and translations
English text
Come where water-lilies grow
On the placid lake;
Where the wavelets, soft and low,
Sweetest music make.
We will launch our fairy boat,
On the rippling wavelet float;
Drifting, dreaming, to and fro,
Where sweet lilies grow.
Come where sunbeams gleam and glance,
Skies of blue smile o’er;
And the zephyrs gaily dance,
Still from shore to shore.
Come where fragrant blossoms rest,
Nor from dreams awake;
As the slumber on the breast
Of the peaceful lake.
Come before the birdlets sleep,
And the shadows fall;
Ere the stars their watches keep
Brightly over all.