Elm and Ivy (Sylvester W. Holdredge)
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- Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-29). Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 332 kB Copyright: Personal
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Title: Elm and Ivy
Composer: Sylvester W. Holdredge
Lyricist: Martin Farquhar Tupper
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1885 Oliver Ditson & Co.
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Original text and translations
English text
The elm tree of old
Felt lonely and cold
When wintry winds blew high;
And looking below,
He saw, in the snow,
The ivy wandering nigh;
And he said, “Come twine
With those tendrils of thine
My scathed and frozen form;
For, heart and hand,
Together we’ll stand,
And mock at the baffled storm.”
And so, when grief
Is withering the leaf,
And checking hope’s young flower,—
And frosts do bite
With their teeth so white,
In disappointment’s hour,—
Tho’ it might o’erwhelm
Either ivy or elm,
If each stood alone in strife,
If heart and hand
Together they stand,
They may laugh at the troubles of life.