Lilies Sweet (John Franklin Fargo)

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• (Posted 2023-10-12)  CPDL #76308:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-12).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 358 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: Lilies Sweet
Composer: John Franklin Fargo
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1880 R. H. Meredith
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Original text and translations

English text

Low in the hills a lake is sleeping,
Where bending pines above it wave;
Where vines, amid the willows creeping,
Their green leaves in its waters lave;
And there, in summer’s richest weather,
When earth with beauty is replete,
We floated o’er the lake together,
And sailed among the lilies sweet.

One evening, in the sunset splendor,
When dreamy silence hovered near,
When only the young moon could render
A charm to grace the water clear,—
I told again the olden story,
Which each new lover will repeat;
While, sitting in the fading glory,
She twined a wreath of lilies sweet.

I waited for her soft replying,
While idly resting on the oar,—
I wondered if the bright day dying,
Would sadness bring, unknown before;
I asked some word— some precious token
To bind with joy the moments fleet,
When in my hand, with love unspoken,
She placed the wreath of lilies sweet.