Spring (Jennifer Bastable)

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•  Posted on 2026-03-17(Posted 2026-03-17)  CPDL #88655:     

Editor: Jennifer Bastable (submitted 2026-03-17).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 314 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Spring
Composer: Jennifer Bastable
Lyricist: Francis Ledwidge
Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SMzATB + Solo
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published:
Description: Part of Francis Ledgwidge's poem Spring, from 'Songs of the Fields' publ. 1915. (There is a second poem Spring, published posthumously in 1918.)

The setting is for SMzATB, with female soloist. (The range is the seventh from D to upper C, optionally upper D, so it could be sung by alto, soprano or mezzo.)

Original text and translations

English text

The young leaf bursts its chrysalis
And gem-like hangs upon the bough,
Where the mad throstle sings in bliss
O'er earth's rejuvenated brow.

Slowly fall, O golden sands,
Slowly fall and let me sing,
Wrapt in the ecstasy of youth,
The wild delights of Spring.