When spring begems the dewy scene, Op.8, no.4 (Alexander Campbell Mackenzie)

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  • (Posted 2023-11-14)  CPDL #77316:     
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General Information

Title: When spring begems the dewy scene
Composer: Alexander Campbell Mackenzie
Lyricist: Thomas Moore

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: SecularPartsong

Language: English
Instruments: a cappella or Keyboard

First published: 1879 in Novello's Part-Song Book (2nd series), Vol. 12, no. 354
Description: Part Songs for Mixed voices, Opus 8, No. 4

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Original text and translations

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When spring begems the dewy scene,
How sweet to walk the velvet green,
And hear the zephyr's languid sighs,
As o'er the scented mead he flies.
How sweet to mark the pouting vine,
Ready to fall in tears of wine.
When the embowering branches meet,
Oh, is not this divinely sweet.