The young mountaineer (Thomas Crampton)
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- Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-12-21). Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 365 kB Copyright: Personal
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General Information
Title: The young mountaineer
Composer: Anonymous (Traditional)
Arranger: Thomas Crampton
Lyricist: Traditional
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong, Folksong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: ca. 1865 F. Pitman
Description: Tune: “Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms”
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Original text and translations
English text
The warrior came down from his tent on the hill,
To woo in the vale of Cashmere:
“Ah, nay!” cried the maid with forebodings of ill,
And shrank from love’s proffer in fear.
But the young mountaineer would not so be denied,
He scoffed at her tremulous “nay,”
And clasping the maid, spurred his courser and cried,
“Away! to the mountain, away.”
Their home on the mountain was stormy and wild,
Unlike the hushed bowers of Cashmere;
Yet the fair, when she gazed on her wedded one, smiled,
And love planted paradise there.
Past wrongs, if recalled, were but named as a jest,
From a cloud e’en as dawneth the day;
And the warrior’s wild words by remembrance were blest,
“Away! to the mountain, away.”