The Winter King (Robert Fairlamb Reah)

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• (Posted 2023-11-30)  CPDL #77737:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-11-30).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 465 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: The Winter King
Composer: Robert Fairlamb Reah
Lyricist: Thomas George Cox
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1898 J. Curwen & Sons
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Original text and translations

English text

Out of the wild and stormy north,
Again the Winter King rides forth,
Again he leaves his icebound home,
With all his marshaled hosts to roam,
While storm-winds roar and oceans foam.

Behold his scouts, how fast they fly,
The clouds that scour the darkening sky,
And while o’er all it blackness throws,
See how his frown more threatening grows,
With ev’ry blast that Boreas blows.

Behold the fire gleam in his eye!
Hark! to his armies rolling by!
Hear now, from towering crag and steep,
Do mighty torrents roaring leap,
Hear storm winds rage and wild waves sweep.