Let sorrow come (Frank Valentine Van der Stucken)

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• (Posted 2023-12-14)  CPDL #78208:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-12-14).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 452 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Let sorrow come
Composer: Frank Valentine Van der Stucken
Lyricist: John Lancaster Spalding
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1908 G. Schirmer
Description: 

Original text and translations

English text

Consoling Power of Beauty

Let sorrow come when spring calls forth her flowers,
And soft white clouds float through the bending skies,
When laughing children greet with glad surprise
The happy earth kissed by fresh April showers;

Or when rich autumn dreams away the hours,
And through the quiet air, with great wide eyes,
Looks on the fields where the reaped harvest lies,
’Mid mellow fruit gleaming in leafy bowers.

For then my heart in nature refuge finds,°
And is consoled by her deep soul of peace;°
But when fierce winter comes with howling winds,
And light and joy with shortening days decrease,
And driving snow the eye of heaven blinds,
O then from pain and grief send sweet release.

from “God & the soul; a poem”
°these two lines omitted by the composer.