After many a dusty mile op.45.3 (Edward Elgar)
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- Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-12). Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 729 kB Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes: SATB arrangement by Elgar from his original for male voices.
- Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2021-12-30). Score information: A4, 7 pages, 165 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score.
General Information
Title: After many a dusty mile op.45.3
Composer: Edward Elgar
Lyricist: Edmund Gosse
Number of voices: 4vv Voicings: TTBB or SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1903
2nd published: 1922 Novello and Co.
Description: Five Partsongs from the Greek Anthology, No. 3
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Original text and translations
English text
After many a dusty mile,
Wanderer, linger here awhile;
Stretch your limbs in this long grass;
Through these pines wind shall pass
That shall cool you with its wing.
Grasshoppers shall shout and sing,
while the shepherd on the hill,
Near a fountain warbling still,
Modulates, when noon is mute,
Summer songs along his flute,
Underneath a spreading tree,
None so easy-limbed as he,
Sheltered from the dog-star's heat.
Rest; and then on freshened feet,
You shall pass the forest through.
It is Pan that counsels you.