The Hawthorn Tree (Margaret Ruthven Lang)

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• (Posted 2023-11-08)  CPDL #77114:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-11-08).   Score information: Letter, 16 pages, 1009 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: The Hawthorn Tree
Composer: Margaret Ruthven Lang
Lyricist: Nathan Haskell Dole
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB, ST solos
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1896 Miles & Thompson
Description: Opus 25

Original text and translations

English text

At the edge of the hedge is a Hawthorn Tree,
And its blossoms are sweet as sweet can be,
And the bees are humming there all the day,
and these are the words that I hear them say:
     Sweet, sweet is the Hawthorn Tree!

All the breezes that breathe o’er those blossoms rare
A burden of perfume happily bear;
And the Songsters revel there all the day long,
And these are the words of their merry song:
     Sweet, sweet is the Hawthorn Tree!

And a maid and her lover wander by
As the twilight glories fade and die;
And they pause ’neath the fragrant boughs to rest,
And over them sways the robin’s nest:
     Sweet, sweet is the Hawthorn Tree!

We too, they whisper, shall soon build a home
’Neath the blue arch of the infinite dome;
And we, all the day, shall sing like the birds,
But with deeper feeling beneath the words:
     Sweet, sweet is the Hawthorn Tree!