The West Wind (Frederick A. Challinor)

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• (Posted 2023-10-02)  CPDL #75977:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-02).   Score information: Letter, 20 pages, 945 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: The West Wind
Composer: Frederick A. Challinor
Lyricist: Henry Branch^{create page}
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: Piano

First published: 1908 Bayley & Ferguson
Description: Songs of the Winds, No. 4.

Original text and translations

English text

What is the voice of the Western Wind?
What are the gifts he brings?

    “I sweep,” he cries,
    “Over April skies,
On swift and glittering wings.”
    In smiles and tears
    I veil the years,
Yet pierce the clouds in twain.
    From my path on the sea,
    A song of the Free
I bear to the servile plain.
    Through the riven night,
    Do I bring the light,
In dreams of a nobler time,
    I show my face
    To the stalwart race
In every land and clime.

For the restless Mind and the dauntless Will,
The roar of the Sea and the strength of the Hill,
Speak in the Western Wind.