Over the bridge (Edward Albert Hanchet)

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(Posted 2024-05-22) CPDL #80751:

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2024-05-22). Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 364 kB Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Over the bridge
Composer: Edward Albert Hanchet
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Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1875 Lee & Shepard
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Original text and translations

English text

Over the bridge across the river,
The footsteps come and go;
Their ceaseless tread goes on forever,
While the waters ebb and flow,
Over the bridge with weary tread
And trembling limbs and slow
Pass gray-haired age with low bowed head,
While the waters ebb and flow.

There’s another bridge o’er a crystal stream,
With arches white as snow,
Which sparkle with a silver gleam,
While the waters ebb and flow,
Over it wends a busy throng;
Some come as others go,
Their voices swell in gladsome song,
While the waters ebb and flow.

Over the bridge across the river,
The footsteps come and go;
Their ceaseless tread goes on forever,
While the waters ebb and flow,
Over that beautiful bridge of light
We all must sometime go
To join that band of angels bright,
While the waters ebb and flow.