The Old Song (Alice E. Griffeth)

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• (Posted 2023-10-23)  CPDL #76554:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-23).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 716 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: The Old Song
Composer: Alice E. Griffeth
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1881 S. W. Straub & Co.
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Original text and translations

English text

Oh, sing again
That dear old strain
My mother sang to me,
When holy rays
Of early days
Gleamed thro’ our threshold tree.

Oh, sing again
That dear old strain
My mother sang to me,
For never more
Beside that door
Will mother sing to me.

The sunset low
In purple glow,
Crept o’er the sanded floor;
The story long
The dear old song,
Beside that oaken door.

But golden gleams
Of hallowed themes
Will linger to the last;
I cherish still
With sacred thrill,
The old song of the past.