The Fay’s Song (Francis William Massi Hardman)
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- (Posted 2023-11-15) CPDL #77350:
- Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-11-15). Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 551 kB Copyright: Personal
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General Information
Title: The Fay’s Song
Composer: Francis William Massi Hardman
Lyricist: Edward Callow
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1920 J. Curwen & Sons
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Original text and translations
English text
Who would not be
An airy sprite,
And lead a life of frolic gay?
From dawn till eve,
From eve till light,
We laugh the hours away.
Now ’neath the moon’s
Bright silvery ray
We spread our fairy board,
Of honey sweet
On rose-leaf laid,
As fits a festal board.
The pale moon wanes,
The morn is cold,
Each fairy elf and fay,
Snug in a flower,
Enwraps herself,
To wait the broad, bright day.
From our flow’ry beds
We rise again
And bathe in the pearly dew;
Then take the air
With a butterfly pair
Link’d to a petal blue.
The evening comes.
Adown the streams,
We sail to Rushen Glen
On a lily leaf—
And meet once more
In song and dance again.
The Manx Phynodderree