Water-lilies (Luther Orlando Emerson)

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• (Posted 2024-03-05)  CPDL #79379:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2024-03-05).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 373 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: Water-lilies
Composer: Luther Orlando Emerson
Lyricist: A. W. French^{create page}
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1899 Chicago Music Co.
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Original text and translations

English text

Come where water-lilies grow
On the placid lake;
Where the wavelets, soft and low,
Sweetest music make.

We will launch our fairy boat,
On the rippling wavelet float;
Drifting, dreaming, to and fro,
Where sweet lilies grow.

Come where sunbeams gleam and glance,
Skies of blue smile o’er;
And the zephyrs gaily dance,
Still from shore to shore.

Come where fragrant blossoms rest,
Nor from dreams awake;
As the slumber on the breast
Of the peaceful lake.

Come before the birdlets sleep,
And the shadows fall;
Ere the stars their watches keep
Brightly over all.