Red leaves (Elizabeth Stirling)

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• (Posted 2023-12-12)  CPDL #78110:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-12-12).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 776 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Red leaves
Composer: Elizabeth Stirling
Lyricist: F. G. Lee^{create page}
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1858 Novello and Co.
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Original text and translations

English text

Red leaves are falling on the ground,
The wind no more is still,
The Wheat is gather’d to the store,
That wav’d on yonder hill;
The summer birds have flown away,
The sky is grey and pale,
Thick mists are hanging round the moon,
Most chilly is the vale.
Red leaves are falling on the ground,
The wind no more is still.

The fall of leaves a sadness flings
O’er hearts however gay,
They, like the friendship often nurs’d,
On earth soon fade away;
But as the sun, that sinks at eve,
Appears to gild the dew,
So shall we all, tho’ faded once,
Live afterwards anew.
Red leaves are falling on the ground,
The wind no more is still.