The Summer (Gustav Holst)

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• (Posted 2025-01-20)  CPDL #83489:   

Editor: Nalei HU (submitted 2025-01-20).   Score information: A4, 9 pages, 5.24 MB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: 这是译配的中文版《夏夜》(打开文件请点击上面的’pdf’标志)；您若有兴趣关注我译配的其他中文歌谱，请点击上面 Editor: 右边的 Nalei HU 链接，或者点击： Chinese。

• (Posted 2020-07-21)  CPDL #59802:     

Editor: Douglas Walczak (submitted 2020-07-21).   Score information: Letter, 5 pages, 99 kB   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: Harp may substitute for the piano.

General Information

Title: The Summer
Composer: Gustav Holst
Lyricist: Gustav Holst

Number of voices: 3vv   Voicing: SSA
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: Piano

First published: 1912
Description: 

Original text and translations

English text

The fierce glaring day is gone.
Gentle night hath spread her mantle
cool and refreshing,
lit by rays of a thousand stars
and by the golden moon.

The moon shineth on yon roof.
Here lie maidens, crowned with jasmine,
clad in silk rayment,
on their ankles are rings that
tinkle sweetly as they move.

Wafted by jewel covered fans,
sweetest perfume floats o'er each breast.
Song and harp unite with warbling birds
to rouse from sleep the god of love.