The New Dress (Benjamin Hanby)

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• (Posted 2023-10-24)  CPDL #76591:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-24).   Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 516 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: The New Dress
Composer: Benjamin Hanby
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1867 Root & Cady
Description: 

Original text and translations

English text

I missed dear little Mabel from her class and school one day
And asked the other children, “Was she sick or gone away?”
When a wee one blushed and stammered, “Neither sick nor any where,
Only her Mother keeps her home, she has no dress to wear.”

Well, if sweet little Mabel’s mother is so very poor,
How many of these children now will give a dime or more
To buy another school dress so that Mabel shall not stay,
Needing the proper clothing from her school another day?

“I will,” cried many little ones, “and I,” cried many more,
“We’ll softly go some evening dark and hang it on her door,
She will never know who hung it, but will rather think, I guess,
God in His pity for His child has given her this new dress.”

The plan at once decided, then, to study as before,
The dress was quickly purchased and was hung on Mabel’s door,
And every eye was bright with joy, and every heart was gay
When little Mabel smiling came in her new dress next day.