Little Celandine (Charles Gounod)
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- Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-11). Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 539 kB Copyright: Personal
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General Information
Title: Little Celandine
Composer: Charles Gounod
Lyricist: William Wordsworth
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: Piano
First published: 1872 in Six New Part-Songs Dedicated to the Royal Albert Hall Choral Society, Goddard & Co., London, Volume 1, no. 2
Description: Six New Part-Songs Dedicated to the Royal Albert Hall Choral Society of 1872, No.2
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Original text and translations
English text
Pansies, lilies, kingcups, daisies,
Let them live upon their praises;
Long as there’s a sun that sets,
Primroses will have their glory;
Long as there are violets,
They will have a place in story:
There’s a flower that shall be mine,
‘Tis the little Celandine.
Ere a leaf is on a bush,
In the time before the thrush
Has a thought about her nest,
Thou wilt come with half a call,
Spreading out thy glossy breast
Like a careless Prodigal;
Telling tales about the sun,
When we’ve little warmth, or none.
Ill befall the yellow flowers,
Children of the flaring hours!
Buttercups, that will be seen,
Whether we will see or no;
Others, too, of lofty mien;
They have done as worldlings do,
Taken praise that should be thine,
Little, humble Celandine!