Waiting for the Spring (Wilbur A. Christy)

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• (Posted 2023-10-03)  CPDL #75986:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-03).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 480 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: Waiting for the Spring
Composer: Wilbur A. Christy
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1878 John Church & Co.
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Original text and translations

English text

No breezes stir the morning,
A silence reigns in air,
The sky is gray above me,
The trees are cold and bare.
Yet unto me the stillness
This lesson seems to bring,
Patience! the earth is waiting,
Waiting for the Spring.

Waiting, Waiting,
Waiting for the Spring.

The trees within the forest,
The oak and poplar high,
Stretch out their leafless branches,
Against the wintry sky.
And e’en the swaying aspen
Hath eased its quivering,
As though she, too, were waiting,
Waiting for the Spring.

I strain my ears to listen,
If happily where I stand
But one strong note of music
May sound in all the land.
Why art thou mute, O blackbird?
O Thrush, why dost not sing?
Ah! surely they are waiting,
Waiting for the Spring.

O heart! thy days are darksome,
O soul! thy nights are drear,
But soon shall joyful sunshine
Proclaim the coming year.
Soon shall the trees be leafy,
Soon every bird shall sing,
Though now they all are waiting,
Waiting for the Spring.