Spring (John Harrison Tenney)

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(Posted 2024-06-11) CPDL #80910:

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2024-06-11). Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 524 kB Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Spring
Composer: John Harrison Tenney
Lyricist: Frances Elizabeth Swift
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong, Glee

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1868 F. J. Huntington & Co.
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Original text and translations

English text

She is with us! she is with us!
    For I list her gentle sigh,
And her music tones of gladness,
    Floating through the branches dry.
Now the south wind lifts the carpet
    Spread beneath the forest old;
Waketh up the scented violet
    From her bed of richest mould.

Softly trills the little sparrow,
    Pecking seeds from out the sod;
And the robin, o’er me flying,
    Lifts his anthem up to God.
To the hollow oak returneth,
    Yet again, the blue-bird bright!
And the quail beside the hedges
    Runs and whistles with delight.

Now the brooklet is unfettered,
    Swollen by the melted snow;
Shining like a thread of silver,—
    Singing through the vale below;
Tokens of the happy spring time,
    On the hill-side by the brook;
Emerald grasses, velvet mosses,
    Smile from many a sunny nook.

On the cottage eaves alighting,
    Swallows in the sun-light sing;
Filling all the air around me
    With their joyous twittering.
O’er the deep blue upper ocean,
    Little white-wing’d barges fly;
Melting out, like fairy phantoms,
    ’Neath the day-god’s burning eye.

Sap is welling, leaf-buds swelling,
    Springing towards their shining goal;
Bursting from their darkened dwelling,
    Like the freed immortal soul.
Spring is with us! she is with us!
    New life wakes in every vein;
Fresh hopes in my heart are welling,
    As I welcome her again!