Airs of summer, softly blow (Henry Elliot Button)

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• (Posted 2023-09-29)  CPDL #75849:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-09-29).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 413 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: Airs of summer, softly blow
Composer: Henry Elliot Button
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1897 Novello, Ewer, and Co.
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English text

Airs of Summer, softly blow;
Sing your whispering songs to me,
Over the grass like shadows go,
Flutter your wings in the rustling tree;
Curl the wave on sunlit sand,
Rock the bee in its rose asleep,
Scatter odours from strand to strand,
Over oceans in laughter sweep.
Kiss the snow on the mountain’s height,
Woo the river that glides beneath,
Sing in the trees your sweet goodnight,
And cease like a baby’s slumbering breath.