The praise of Spring (Charles Villiers Stanford)

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• (Posted 2024-04-12)  CPDL #80189:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2024-04-12).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 518 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: The praise of Spring
Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford
Lyricist: May Byron
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1908 J. Curwen & Sons
Description: Three Part-Songs, Op. 111, No. 2.

Original text and translations

English text

Now is the sunny Spring
     In every meadow seen,
Now birds on wanton wing
     Do fly through forest green;
Each lusty living thing
     Must needs rejoice and sing,
Then let us bear our part
     With a blithe and merry heart,
          And a fa la la la la.

Now by each reedy brook,
     That doth to music run;
The shepherd hangs his crook
     With garlands in the sun:
The fields, by snow forsook,
     Put on their freshest look,
The swain to labour goes,
     When as the south wind blows,
          And a fa la la la la.

Now May in flowers bedight
     Doth all to music move,
And maids in dances light
     Their joy of heart do prove.
The nightingale by night
     Doth echo our delight,
And the cuckoo cries abroad,
     The springtime let us laud
          And a fa la la la la.