Springtime (Samuel Reay)

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• (Posted 2023-12-01)  CPDL #77754:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-12-01).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 468 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Springtime
Composer: Samuel Reay
Lyricist: Clarence Austin^{create page}
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1885 Oliver Ditson & Co.
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Original text and translations

English text

Now let us sing the joys of spring,
And laugh the hours away;
For bud and blossom doth she bring
To welcome in the May.

Before her dance the welcome hours,
And o’er the hill and plain,
The lovely band of fragrant flowers
Now bloom in joy again.

With melody the woods awake,
And skies are bright and fair,
The sunbeams flash o’er stream and lake
And mirth is everywhere.

Come, let us sing the Joys of Spring
With loving hearts and true;
Let music fall from dulcet string,
To care we’ll bid adieu.

With dance and son, the hours prolong,
Our thankfulness to prove;
For well we know her presence sweet
Brings beauty, life, and love.

Soon will the bloom on hawthorn spray
Be white as lingering snow,
And soon the meadow flowers be gay,
Where ruddy milkmaids go.

The lark is high, and trilling clear
His sweet empyrean strain;
He fills the springtide drawing near,
And mates and sings again!