Skating (Howard Kingsbury)

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(Posted 2024-04-29) CPDL #80441:

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2024-04-29). Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 350 kB Copyright: Personal

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Title: Skating
Composer: Howard Kingsbury
Lyricist: James Gates Percival
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1874 Taintor Brothers
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Original text and translations

English text

We speed o’er the star-lighted mirror along,
And the wood and the mountain re-echo our song.
As on, like the wing of the eagle, we sweep,
Now gliding, now wheeling, we ring o’er the deep.
The winds whistle keenly,—the red cheek is warm,
And there’s none who would yield not his breast to the storm.

The stars are above us, so full and so bright,
And the mirror below us is gemmed with their light.
Like the far-wheeling hawk, in the mid-air we fly;
A sky is above us,—below us a sky.
As onward we glide in our race, we keep time;
And clear as the morning bell echoes our chime.

By pine-covered rock, and by willow-bound shore,
Breast even with breast, like a torrent we pour.
Short, quick are our strokes, as we haste to the mark,
And shrill is our cry, as the trill of the lark.
The goal is now reached, and we bend us away,
Wide wheeling, or curving in fanciful play.