I am Dreaming (Mary Holden Coggeshall)

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• (Posted 2023-09-28)  CPDL #75842:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-09-28).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 645 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: I am Dreaming
Composer: Mary Holden Coggeshall
Lyricist: Fanny Crosby
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1872 Biglow & Main
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Original text and translations

English text

I am dreaming of a cottage,
Half concealed beneath the shade,
Where the robins sweetly caroled,
And the idle zephyr played,
And I weep, as o’er me stealing
Comes an echo soft and low,
From a lute whose chords were broken
By the touch of long ago.

Still in pensive thought I linger,
By that rustic cottage door,
But the zephyr moans in pity,
And the robin sings no more.

I am dreaming, fondly dreaming
Of a blue-eyed maiden fair,
With her cheek of merry dimples
And a step as light as air;
But we laid her with the roses,
Where a brooklet murmurs low,
And my life’s young love is sleeping
In the grave of long ago.

Still in pensive thought I linger,
By that rustic cottage door,
But the zephyr moans in pity,
And the robin sings no more.