May morning (John Liptrot Hatton)

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• (Posted 2023-10-26)  CPDL #76695:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-26).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 391 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: May morning
Composer: John Liptrot Hatton
Lyricist: Beatrice Abercrombie
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1872 Lamborn Cock & Co.
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Original text and translations

English text

Would you know the maid he loves?
This morn her name discloses
And paints its colors on her cheek
In lilies and in roses;
Her song’s the sweet bird’s note,
Her smile the waking of the flowers,
Her presence as the sunny light
That warms this world of ours.

To name her is to speak of love,
Of all in nature fairest,
Youth, beauty, purity, and grace,
And every charm the rarest.
This humble tribute to thy charms
(Without its merits weighing),
Accept, sweet maid, from truest hearts
That ever went a-maying!