The South Wind (Frederick A. Challinor)

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• (Posted 2023-10-02)  CPDL #75975:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-02).   Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 706 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: The South Wind
Composer: Frederick A. Challinor
Lyricist: Henry Branch^{create page}
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: Piano

First published: 1908 Bayley & Ferguson
Description: Songs of the Winds, No. 2.

Original text and translations

English text

From Sapphire seas:
With breath of orange trees;
Laden with ecstacies;
Telling of olive glades
Within whose solemn shades
Of old the Oracles in whispers spake,
Come, thou sweet South!
Come from the silvery lake,
The vine-clad steep, the temple-guarded stream,
Thrilling and quivering in the golden beam.
Come with the sound of song,
Borne from a lover’s heart,
Life’s tenderest strain across the distance fanned.
Or merry pipe of peasants on their way
To tread the winepress,
to tread the winepress and make glad the land.
Come with the strain divine
Of blessed loves that are the wine of this our life,
How stern so-e’er the strife.
Come sweetest, happiest voice,
Bid weary hearts rejoice.
O come, thou aerial Dove,
Whose song is all of love,
O come and tell of life and love.