Summer morning (James Coward)

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• (Posted 2023-10-06)  CPDL #76099:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-06).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 491 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Summer morning
Composer: James Coward
Lyricist: John Clare
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1874 Stanley Lucas, Weber & Co.
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Original text and translations

English text

’Tis sweet to meet the morning breeze,
Or list the gurgling of the brook;
Or, stretched beneath the shade of trees,
Peruse and pause on Nature’s book.
Now let me tread the meadow paths
While glittering dew the ground illumes,
As, sprinkled o’er the withering swaths,
Their moisture shrinks in sweet perfumes;
And hear the beetle sound his horn;
And hear the skylark whistling nigh,
Sprung from his bed of tufted corn,
A hailing minstrel from the sky.