Sing a low song (Frederick A. Challinor)

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• (Posted 2023-10-02)  CPDL #75973:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-02).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 488 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Sing a low song
Composer: Frederick A. Challinor
Lyricist: Bryan Procter
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1907 Bayley & Ferguson
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Original text and translations

English text

    Sing a low song!
A tender cradling measure, soft and low,
    Not sad nor long,
But such as we remember long ago,
    When Time, now old, was flying
Over the sunny seasons, bright and fleet,
    And the red rose was lying
Amongst a crowd of flowers all too sweet.

    Sing o’er the bier!
The bell is swinging in the time-worn tower:
    He’s gone who late was here,
As fresh as manhood in its lustiest hour.
    A song to each brief season,
Winter and shining Summer, doth belong,
    For some sweet human reason,—
O’er cradle or the coffin still a song.