October (William Otto Miessner)

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•  Posted on 2024-04-11(Posted 2024-04-11)  CPDL #80187:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2024-04-11).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 601 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: October
Composer: William Otto Miessner
Lyricist: Dora Read Goodale
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1915 Silver, Burdett and Co.
Description: 

Original text and translations

English text

You come to a Country rich with corn,
        October!
The young birds pipe in the fields new-shorn,
        October!
And stacks of russet on every hand
Like pointed tents of the redmen stand,
        October!

The flail is heard on the farmer’s floor,
        October!
While straw and chaff are thick at the door,
        October!
The dusky stacks go over the hill,
And merrily, merrily whirls the mill,
        October!

Your voice is a thrush’s, a fawn’s your tread.
        October!
A garland of flowers is round your head,
        October!
Your cheeks how bonny, your breath how sweet!—
The lamps of the forest light your feet,
        October!

Oh, shake your crisp locks to the wak’ning sun,
        October!
And drink of your presses that laugh as they run,
        October!
The Ice King lurks in the fields of snow
To rifle your treasure and lay you low,
        October!