Dreamland (John Hyatt Brewer)

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• (Posted 2023-09-27)  CPDL #75801:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-09-27).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 603 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Dreamland
Composer: John Hyatt Brewer
Lyricist: Francis Howard Williams
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1893 Arthur P. Schmidt
Description: Op. 24, No. 1

Original text and translations

English text

      Sleep, my pretty one,
      Sleep, my little one,
Rose in the garden is blooming so Red;
   Over the flowers the fleet-footed hours
Dance into dreamland, to melody wed;
   To the voice in the stream—And like to a song in a dream,
Sung low by the brook to its stone-covered bed,
      Sung soft as it goes,
      And the heart of the rose
      Gives a tremulous leap
      As the melody flows.
         Ah! little one, sleep,
            Sleep.

      Joy, my pretty one,
      Joy, my little one,
Fairies of night from their bright jeweled cars
   Fling a faint sheen, and shimmer on ripples, where glimmer
The up-gazing eyes of the down-gazing stars;
   And the boat, while it glides, sings the song of the tides
As they kiss into languor the sands of the bars.
      Oh, river, flow fleet,
      Ere the melody meet
      The sea’s breath to destroy
      What the echoes repeat:
         Oh, joy, my little one, joy,
            Joy!

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