In the wood (Howard Kingsbury)

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• (Posted 2024-04-25)  CPDL #80399:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2024-04-25).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 352 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: In the wood
Composer: Howard Kingsbury
Lyricist: Adelaide Anne Procter
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1874 Taintor Brothers
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Original text and translations

English text

In the wood where shadows are deepest
From the branches overhead,
Where the wild
wood-strawberries cluster,
And the softest moss is spread,
I met today with a fairy,
And I followed her where she led.

Some magical words she uttered,
I alone could understand,
For the sky grew bluer and brighter;
While there rose on either hand
The cloudy walls of a palace
That was built in fairy-land.

And I stood in a strange enchantment;
I had known it all before:
In my heart of hearts was the magic
Of days that will come no more,
The magic of joy departed,
That Time can never restore.

That never, ah, never, never,
Never again can be:—
Shall I tell you what powerful fairy
Built up this palace for me?
It was only a little white Violet
I found at the root of a tree.