A Song of Autumn (Percy Buck)

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• (Posted 2023-09-28)  CPDL #75827:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-09-28).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 620 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: A Song of Autumn
Composer: Percy Buck
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1906 Novello and Co.
Description: 

Original text and translations

English text

Brown and golden and red,
Fall the leaves that were once so green,
Once in the time when Spring was Queen:
But now the world grows bleak and cold,
Its glory fades as a tale that is told,
But now the world grows bleak and cold,
Its glory fades as a tale that is told.

Brown and golden and red,
Fall the leaves that were once so green,
In the time when Spring was Queen.
Joyless, barren and dead,
Pass the years that were fraught with fire,
Fraught with love and with life’s desire:
But now the shadows are dark and long,
At last it ringeth to evensong,
But now the shadows are dark and long,
At last it ringeth to evensong.
Joyless, barren and dead,
Pass the years that were fraught with fire,
With love and life’s desire.

attributed to E. M.