Arise, my Love! (Frederick Westlake)

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• (Posted 2023-12-15)  CPDL #78277:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-12-15).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 602 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Arise, my Love!
Composer: Frederick Westlake
Lyricist: Charles J. Rowe^{create page}
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1873 Lamborn Cock& Co.
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Original text and translations

English text

Arise, my love! the buds unclose,
To show their petals gay,
And shed their choicest fragrance round,
To welcome in the May.
The warbling songsters of the grove,
From out the hedgerows sweet,
In bright and joyous strains of love
This pleasant season greet.

’Tis Flora’s month, the month of flow’rs,
When Nature is most gay,
When all looks bright to glad the sight–
It is the month of May.
Fal lal la la.

Come then, my love! and hence with me,
To wander o’er the plain,
Where thou shalt hear, borne on the breeze,
The lark’s melodious strain.
And there, amid the birds and flowers
That greet thee on thy way,
Thy heart shall sing in gladsome strain
A carol to the May.