Summer Winds (Henry Gadsby)
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- (Posted 2023-10-17) CPDL #76427:
- Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-17). Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 748 kB Copyright: Personal
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General Information
Title: Summer Winds
Composer: Henry Gadsby
Lyricist: Frank Murray
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1873 Stanley Lucas, Weber & Co.
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Original text and translations
English text
Summer winds are lightly blowing,
Roaming over land and sea,
They murmur now to lake and wildwood,
Then caress the grassy lea.
As they gaily gambol onward,
Bringing health to summer flowers,
They hear around delicious fragrance
From jasmine and clematis bowers.
Now they fly to distant mountains,
Now they wave the lowly broom,
Now they rustle trembling aspens
And scatter wide each flower’s perfume.
Now they creep through moss clad ruins
Where the sparkling dewdrops gleam,
Gladdening all the earth with freshness,
Rippling all the laughing streams.
Thus new life and joy they’re bringing
To the weary sons of earth,
Making glad hearts feel more joyous
Bearing high their songs of mirth.
Bounteous Nature thus rejoices,
Fills with joy each troubled mind,
Trees and plants the Ocean all things
Welcome back soft summer winds.