O swallow, swallow (Gustav Holst)

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Editor: Stuart McIntosh (submitted 2004-07-21).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 120 kB   Copyright: Personal
Edition notes: Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score.

General Information

Title: O Swallow, Swallow
Composer: Gustav Holst
Lyricist: Alfred Tennyson

Number of voices: 3vv   Voicing: SSA

Genre: SecularPartsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

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Original text and translations

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O swallow, swallow, flying, flying South,
Fly to her, and fall upon her gilded eaves,
And tell her, tell her what I tell to thee.
O tell her, swallow, that thou knowest each,
That bright, and fierce, and fickle is the South,
And dark, and true, and tender is the North.
O tell her, brief is life, but love is long.
And brief the sun of summer in the North,
And brief the noon of beauty in the South.
O swallow, flying from the golden woods,
Fly to her, and woo her, and make her mine,
And tell her, tell her that I follow thee.