Song to Spring (Francesco Berger)

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• (Posted 2023-09-22)  CPDL #75612:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-09-22).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 521 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Song to Spring
Composer: Francesco Berger
Lyricist: Charles Swain
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1871 Novello, Ewer, and Co.
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Original text and translations

English text

Spring! spring! beautiful spring!
Hitherward cometh like hope on the wing—
Pleasantly looketh on streamlet and flood,
Raiseth a chorus of joy in the wood.
Toucheth the bud, and it bursts into bloom,
Biddeth the beautiful rise from the tomb,
Blesseth the heart like a heav’nly thing,
Spring! spring! beautiful spring!

Song sweetly saluteth the morn,
The robin awaketh and sits on the thorn;
Timidly warbles, while yet in the east
Twilight from duty has not been released;
Calleth the lark that ascendeth on high,
Greeting the sun in the depth of the sky,
Telleth the blackbird and linnet to sing,
Welcome! welcome! welcome, oh, spring!