Pastoral (Julius Harrison)

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• (Posted 2023-10-25)  CPDL #76608:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-25).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 634 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Pastoral
Composer: Julius Harrison
Lyricist: Courtenay Cecil Mansel
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1920 J. Curwen & Sons
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Original text and translations

English text

No more the throstle sings in Arcady,
Who charmed to ecstasy the silver spring,
His clarion notes ring heavy now
Such age the passing months do bring.
No more doth Philomel her sorrows fill,
No more the glades reechoing thrill,
Only the redbreast on a bough
Pipeth disconsolate and shrill.
Alas! Alas! that Arcady
Is hushed and mute, and nevermore
Shall Daphne tread the sounding shore,
Or listen to the falling sea.
Alas! Alas! For vows forgot,
And plighted troth remembered not,
For faith forsworn and nothing made,
For love to earth untimely laid.
No more, as in the happy spring,
Shall all the groves with echoes ring,
No more shall Daphne laughing crown
With laurel wreath her tresses brown,
Or gather roses white and red
To match her cheeks (so Strephon said)
Ah! nevermore, ’tis vain to sigh,
The laurels fade, the roses die.