A wife's song (Joseph Barnby)
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- Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2019-05-22). Score information: A4, 4 pages, 84 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: MusicXML source file(s) in compressed .mxl format.
General Information
Title: A wife's song
Composer: Joseph Barnby
Lyricist: William Cox Bennett
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: Keyboard
First published: 1875 in Novello's Part-Song Book (2nd series), Vol. 3, no. 106
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Original text and translations
English text
O well I love the Spring,
When the sweet, sweet hawthorn blows;
And well I love the Summer,
And the coming of the rose.
But dearer are the changing leaf,
And the year upon the wane,
For O they bring the blessed time
That brings him home again.
November may be dreary;
December's days may be
As full of gloom to others
As once they were to me:
But, O to hear the tempest
Beat loud against the pane!
For the roaring wind and the blessed time
That brings him home again.