The Hemlock Tree (Thomas Willert Beale)

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• (Posted 2023-11-15)  CPDL #77356:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-11-15).   Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 484 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: The Hemlock Tree
Composer: Thomas Willert Beale
Lyricist: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: Piano

First published: 1867 Lamborn Cock, Addison & Co.
Description: Published using pseudonym Walter Maynard.

Original text and translations

English text

O Hemlock tree! O Hemlock tree!
How faithful are thy branches!
Green not alone in summer time,
But in the winter’s frost and rime!
O Hemlock tree! O Hemlock tree!
How faithful are thy branches!

O Maiden fair! O Maiden fair!
How faithless is thy bosom!
To love me in prosperity,
And leave me in adversity!
O Maiden fair! O Maiden fair!
How faithless is thy bosom!

The Nightingale the Nightingale,
Thou tak’st for thine example!
So long as summer laughs she sings,
But in the autumn spreads her wings.
The Nightingale, the Nightingale,
Thou tak’st for thine example!

The meadow Brook, the meadow Brook,
Is mirror of thy falsehood!
It flows so long as falls the rain,
In drought its springs soon dry again.
The meadow Brook, the meadow Brook,
Is mirror of thy falsehood!