Echo-song (Oliver Arthur King)

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• (Posted 2023-11-06)  CPDL #76976:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-11-06).   Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 624 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Echo-song
Composer: Oliver Arthur King
Lyricist: Felicia Hemans
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1915 Novello and Co.
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Original text and translations

English text

    In thy cavern-hall,
        Echo! art thou sleeping?
    By the fountain’s fall
        Dreamy silence keeping?
            Yet one soft note borne
            From the shepherd’s horn,
Wakes thee, Echo! into music leaping!
—Strange, sweet Echo! into music leaping.

    Then the woods rejoice,
        Then glad sounds are swelling
    From each sister-voice,
        Round thy rocky dwelling;
            And their sweetness fills
            All the hollow hills,
With a thousand notes, of one life telling!
—Softly mingled notes, of one life telling.

    Echo! in my heart
        Thus deep thoughts are lying,
    Silent and apart,
        Buried, yet undying.
            Till some gentle tone
            Wakening haply one,
Calls a thousand forth, like thee replying!
—Strange, sweet Echo! even like thee replying.