When Spring comes round (Henry Thomas Smart)

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• (Posted 2023-12-08)  CPDL #78020:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-12-08).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 418 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: When Spring comes round
Composer: Henry Thomas Smart
Lyricist: Frederick Enoch
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1872 Tonic Sol-Fa Agency
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Original text and translations

English text

When spring comes round and leaves are green,
And cuckoos haunt the dell,
When beauty everywhere is seen,
And love is heard as well:
I’ll hie me to my lady’s bower,
There ’neath her casement sing:
Come forth, come forth, there needs one flower,
One flower to perfect spring!

When spring comes round I’ll tell my fair:
“My heart but waits one ray
To wake a spring-time shining there,
That will not pass away;”
I’ll say to her, “That love’s May-hour,”
Her voice alone can bring:–
“Come forth! Come forth!” Be thou the flower,
The flower to perfect spring!