The clover (Lucien H. Southard)

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• (Posted 2023-12-11)  CPDL #78052:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-12-11).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 358 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: The clover
Composer: Lucien H. Southard
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: ca. 1880 Copp, Clark & Co.
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Original text and translations

English text

Down among the meadow grass,
Searching it all over,
What a merry band are we,
Hunting four-leaved clover!
Over head the dancing leaves
In the are breeze swaying;
While beneath, the light and shade,
Hide and seek are playing.

Sweetly sing the merry birds
In the branches o’er us,
And the group beneath the shade,
Swell the happy chorus.
Now and then a honeybee,
Laden with his treasure,
Darting from the clover blooms,
Hums a drowsy measure.

Through the dewy-scented grass,
There’s a streamlet flowing,
And upon his mossy banks
Meadow lilies growing.
In among this scent and bloom,
Bright with mirth and laughter,
Keen black eyes are sure to find
What they’re seeking after.