I love the jocund dance (Frederick Corder)

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• (Posted 2024-03-18)  CPDL #79580:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2024-03-18).   Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 629 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: I love the jocund dance
Composer: Frederick Corder
Lyricist: William Blake
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1889 Novello, Ewer and Co.
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Original text and translations

English text

I love the jocund dance,
The softly breathing song,
Where innocent eyes do glance,
And where lisps the maiden’s tongue.
I love the laughing vale,
I love the echoing hill,
Where mirth does never fail,
And the jolly swain laughs his fill.
I love the pleasant cot,
I love the innocent bow’r,
Where white and brown is our lot,
Or fruit in the mid-day hour.
I love the oaken seat,
Beneath the oaken tree,
Where all the old villagers meet,
And laugh our sports to see.
I love our neighbours all,
But, Kitty, I better love thee;
And love them I ever shall;
But thou art all to me.