Little Celandine (Charles Gounod)

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• (Posted 2023-10-11)  CPDL #76236:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-11).   Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 539 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Little Celandine
Composer: Charles Gounod
Lyricist: William Wordsworth
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: Piano

First published: 1872 in Six New Part-Songs Dedicated to the Royal Albert Hall Choral Society, Goddard & Co., London, Volume 1, no. 2
Description: Six New Part-Songs Dedicated to the Royal Albert Hall Choral Society of 1872, No.2

Original text and translations

English text

Pansies, lilies, kingcups, daisies,
Let them live upon their praises;
Long as there’s a sun that sets,
Primroses will have their glory;
Long as there are violets,
They will have a place in story:
There’s a flower that shall be mine,
‘Tis the little Celandine.

Ere a leaf is on a bush,
In the time before the thrush
Has a thought about her nest,
Thou wilt come with half a call,
Spreading out thy glossy breast
Like a careless Prodigal;
Telling tales about the sun,
When we’ve little warmth, or none.

Ill befall the yellow flowers,
Children of the flaring hours!
Buttercups, that will be seen,
Whether we will see or no;
Others, too, of lofty mien;
They have done as worldlings do,
Taken praise that should be thine,
Little, humble Celandine!