The Rivulet (Daniel Protheroe)
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- Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-11-30). Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 574 kB Copyright: Personal
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Title: The Rivulet
Composer: Daniel Protheroe
Lyricist: Richard Joseph Beamish
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: Piano
First published: 1891 D. O. Evans
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Original text and translations
English text
In the cloudland, on yon mountain,
Winds a silver mystic chain,
Plushing downward like a fountain
In a misty jeweled rain.
Pushing ever through the gorges,
Laughing like a happy child,
Roaring where the rocks it forges
Into forms grotesque and wild.
But when winter comes with breezes,
Laden with an icy breath,
Then the laughter in it freezes,
Stilled it is in arms of Death.
And the sunlight kissing sadly,
All its cold and joyless face
Seems to wonder when it, gladly,
Will resume its merry race.
When thy face, Oh, stream, is gleaming
In the rays of noonday sun,
Thou art like my fitful dreaming
Of the race that life should run.
But when icebound and forsaken,
Thou dost rock nor heather kiss,
Waiting for new life to waken,
Thou art like eternal bliss.