O swallow, swallow (Gustav Holst)

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• CPDL #7678: Sibelius 2

Editor: Stuart McIntosh (added 2004-07-21).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 120 kbytes   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: piano reduction included.

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Title: O Swallow, Swallow
Composer: Gustav Holst

Number of voices: 3vv  Voicing: SSA
Genre: Secular, Partsongs

Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
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Original text and translations

English text

O swallow, swallow, flying, flying South,

Fly to her, and fall upon her gilded eaves,

And tell her, tell her what I tell to thee.

O tell her, swallow, that thou knowest each,

That bright, and fierce, and fickle is the South,

And dark, and true, and tender is the North.

O tell her, brief is life, but love is long.

And brief the sun of summer in the North,

And brief the noon of beauty in the South.

O swallow, flying from the golden woods,

Fly to her, and woo her, and make her mine,

And tell her, tell her that I follow thee.

Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892)