Song of the brook (Edwin T. Pound)
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- (Posted 2023-11-29) CPDL #77703:
- Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-11-29). Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 419 kB Copyright: Personal
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General Information
Title: Song of the brook
Composer: Edwin T. Pound
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1885 E. T. Pound
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Original text and translations
English text
I chatter over stony ways
In little sharps and trebles,
I bubble into eddying bays,
I babble on the pebbles;
With many a curve my banks I fret,
By many a field and fallow,
And many a fairy foreland set
With willow, weed, and mallow.
I chatter, chatter as I flow
To join the brimming river,
For men may come, and men may go,
But I go on forever.
I wind about, and in and out,
With here a blossom sailing,
And here and there a lusty trout,
And here and there, a grayling;
And here and thee a foamy flake
Upon me, as I travel,
With many a silvery water break
Above the golden gravel.
I draw them all along, and flow
To join the brimming river,
For men may come, and men may go,
But I go on forever.
I steal by lawns and grassy plots,
I slide by hazel covers,
I move the sweet forget-me-nots
That grow for happy lovers;
I slip, I slide, I gloom, I glance
Among my skimming swallows,
I make the netted sunbeam dance
Against my sandy shallows.
And out and in I curve and flow
To join the brimming river,
For men may come, and men may go,
But I go on forever.