All in a green thicket (Jennifer Bastable)
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- (Posted 2026-01-02) CPDL #87974:
- Editor: Jennifer Bastable (submitted 2026-01-02). Score information: Letter, 7 pages, 435 kB Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes:
General Information
Title: All in a green thicket
Composer: Jennifer Bastable
Lyricist: Cicely Fox Smith
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB + Tenor solo
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published:
Description: A setting for SATB and tenor soloist, of Cicely Fox Smith's poem 'The Green Thicket.'
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Original text and translations
English text
All in a green thicket I heard a bird sing,
And blithe though his song was it made the tears spring,
To hear a bird sing as he swung on his spray,
All in a green thicket at break of the day.
All in a green thicket his song it did pour
That told of the Springs that shall come nevermore,
That sang of sweet blossoms, now faded and dry,
All in a green thicket in Aprils gone by.
All in a green thicket that morning in Spring,
I smelt the sharp scent of each young growing thing,
I smelt the sweet herbage all drowned with the dew,
And the time that's gone from me was with me anew.
All in a green thicket at break of the day
It was like the dear voice of a friend far away,
It was like the kind touch of a hand that I know,
And the smile and the tears of dead Aprils ago,
All in a green thicket one morning in Spring,
For to smell the young woodland and hear the bird sing,
Oh, long did I loiter and dream by the way,
All in a green thicket at break of the day.