Snowflakes (Friedrich Gernsheim)

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• (Posted 2023-10-20)  CPDL #76474:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-20).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 314 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Snowflakes
Composer: Friedrich Gernsheim
Lyricist: John Vance Cheney
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: Piano

First published: 1915 Silver, Burdett and Company
Description: Commissioned for a collection of part-songs published in the United States for use by school choirs.

Original text and translations

English text

Falling all the night-time,
Falling all the day,
Silence into silence,
From the far-away;

Never came like glory
To the fields and trees,
Never summer blossoms,
Thick and white as these.

To the dear old places
Winging night and day,
Follow, follow, follow,
Fold them soft away;

Folding, folding, folding,
Fold the world away,
Souls of flowers drifting
Down the winter day.