The Iron Founders (William Webster Pearson)
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- (Posted 2023-11-27) CPDL #77631:
- Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-11-27). Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 713 kB Copyright: Personal
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General Information
Title: The Iron Founders
Composer: William Webster Pearson
Lyricist: John Mason Neale
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: Piano
First published: 1913 Novello and Co.
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Original text and translations
English text
’Tis a fearful sight, on a Winter’s night,
When the wind on the moors is high,
And here and there the furnace-glare,
Is ruddy across the sky:
And horribly bright from its funnel’s height
A sheet of flame is cast;
And far below is the livid glow
Of the iron melting fast.
A weary watch, while others sleep,
A weary watch have we;
When the frost is sharp, and the night is deep,
And as lone as lone can be:
And the blast, that naught can weary, roars
To the wind that roars again;
You might keep alive, with the air it pours,
Two hundred thousand men!
And hour by hour, as the distant stroke
Of the old church-clock we hear,
We feed the furnace with lime and coke,
Whereon he makes good cheer:
And hour by hour, in his red, red sides,
He melts the ore away;
And the liquid stream of metal glides
From the hearth to its bed of clay.