Cheerfulness (Edward Roberts)

Music files

L E G E N D

Disclaimer

How to download

ICON	SOURCE
	Pdf
	Mp3
	File details
	Help

• (Posted 2024-06-24)  CPDL #81026:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2024-06-24).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 300 kB   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes:

General Information

Title: Cheerfulness
Composers: Edward Roberts and John Paul Morgan
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1868 F. J. Huntington & Co.
Description: This piece appears in “The Tonart” (1868), written by Edward Roberts and John Paul Morgan. The publication did not specify an individual composer.
Exercise for the key of A.

Original text and translations

English text

It clearly echoes in the breast,
Like Music’s sweetest string,
It warms our hearts with gentle glow,
Like sunshine in the spring.

It gives us strength to do and bear,
It makes the heavy light;
It makes the roughest pathway smooth,
And cheers the darkest night.

This treasure rich is cheerfulness,
To willing bosoms given;
From heavenly truth and good it flows,
And turns again to heaven.