Spring’s Message (Edward B. Birge)

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• (Posted 2023-09-22)  CPDL #75632:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-09-22).   Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 544 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Spring’s Message
Composer: Edward B. Birge
Lyricist: William Ernest Henley
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: Keyboard

First published: 1923 Silver, Burdett and Co.
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Original text and translations

English text

The ways are green with the gladdening sheen
    Of the young year’s fairest daughter.
O, the shadows that fleet o’er the springing wheat!
    O, the magic of running water!
The spirit of spring is in every thing,
    The banners of spring are streaming,
We march to a tune from the fifes of June,
    And life’s a dream worth dreaming.

What Nature has writ with her lusty wit
    Is worded so wisely and kindly
That whoever has dipped in her manuscript
    Must up and follow her blindly.
Now the summer prime is her blithest rhyme
    In the being and the seeming,
And they that have heard the overword
    Know life’s a dream worth dreaming.