Sylvia (Oley Speaks)
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- Editor: Douglas Walczak (submitted 2022-11-30). Score information: Letter, 6 pages, 79 kB Copyright: Public Domain
- Edition notes: arranged for 4-part mixed chorus by Samuel Richard Gaines (1869 -1945)
General Information
Title: Sylvia
Composer: Oley Speaks
Lyricist: Clinton Scollard
Number of voices: 1v Voicing: T
Genre: Secular, Unknown
Language: English
Instruments: Piano
First published: 1922
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Original text and translations
English text
Sylvia's hair is like the night
Touched with glancing starry beams;
Such a face as drifts thro' dreams
This is Sylvia to the sight
And the touch of Sylvia's hand
Is as light as milkweed down
When the meads are golden brown
And the autumn fills the land
Sylvia: - just the echoing
Of her voice brings back to me
From the depths of memory
All the loveliness of spring;
Sylvia! Sylvia!
Such a face as drifts thro' dreams
This is Sylvia to the sight