My love's an arbutus (Charles Villiers Stanford)

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• CPDL #678: SIBELIUS

Editor: Jim Cooke (added 2000-02-04).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 72 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: score revised April 7, 2004

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Title: My Love's an Arbutus
Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: Secular, Partsongs

Language: English
Instruments: none
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Original text and translations

English text

My love's an arbutus
By the borders of Lene,
So slender and shapely
In her girdle of green.
And I measure the pleasure
Of her eyes' sapphire sheen
By the blue skies that sparkle
Through the soft branching screen.

But though ruddy the berry
And snowy the flower
That brighten together
The arbutus bower,
Perfuming and blooming
Through sunshine and shower,
Give me her bright lips
And her laugh's pearly dower.

Alas, fruit and blossom
Shall lie dead on the lea,
And Time's jealous fingers
Dim your young charms, Machree.
But unranging, unchanging,
You'll still cling to me,
Like the evergreen leaf
To the arbutus tree.

Alfred Perceval Graves (1846-1931)