The silver lake (Charles E. Whiting)

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• (Posted 2024-07-10)  CPDL #81303:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2024-07-10).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 325 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: The silver lake
Composer: Charles E. Whiting
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1868 D. C. Heath and Co.
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Original text and translations

English text

Come with me! the moon is beaming
O’er the silver waters of the lake so fair;
See ye not the white sails gleaming,
And the ripples laughing in the summer air?
Come with me! the boat is waiting,
And the distant voices sweetest echoes wake;
Come, oh, come, the moon is beaming
O’er the laughing waters of the silver lake.

Oh, delay not! time is flying,
And our comrades scull us from the pebbly strand;
E’en the gentle breeze is sighing
As it waits to bear us from the dewy land.
’Mid the hills is beauty gleaming,
And the distant voices sweetest echoes wake;
Come, oh, come, the moon is beaming
O’er the laughing waters of the silver lake.

Wake the harp to accents tender;
Softly sweep the chords, and warble sweetest lays,
While the starry hosts in splendor
Greet their placid mirror with an earnest gaze.
Earth is heaven in fairest seeming,
And the distant voices sweetest echoes wake;
Come, oh, come, the moon is beaming
O’er the laughing waters of the silver lake.