A Summer Song (Thomas Crampton)

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• (Posted 2023-10-06)  CPDL #76119:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-06).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 411 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: A Summer Song
Composer: Thomas Crampton
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1872 Tonic Sol-Fa Agency
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Original text and translations

English text

Out among the bracken
All the livelong day,
Where the birds are singing,
And the lambkins play—
Where the cooing ringdove
And the cuckoo call,
While the glorious sunshine
Shineth overall.

Out among the dewdrops,
Ere the sun’s fierce ray
Has, with his bright glances,
Kiss’d them all away;
By the sparkling waters,
O’er the rocks that fall,
While the glorious sunshine
Shineth overall.

Out among the clover
Where the busy bee
Robs the fragrant blossom
And the perfumed tree,
Where the golden wheat-ear
Standeth straight and tall,
While the glorious sunshine
Shineth overall.

Out among the meadows,
Out among the bay,
Fill’d with pleasant fancies—
Dreaming life away—
Gaily let us wander,
Free from worldly thrall,
While the glorious sunshine
Shineth overall.

F. P. A.
In The Family Herald
No. 1418, Vol. XXVII
25 June 1870