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==General Information== | ==General Information== | ||
'''Title:''' ''Vernal Day''<br> | '''Title:''' ''Vernal Day''<br> | ||
'''First Line:''' When verdure clothes the fertile vale<br> | |||
{{Composer|Oliver Holden}} | {{Composer|Oliver Holden}} | ||
{{Lyricist|Anne Steele}} | {{Lyricist|Anne Steele}} | ||
{{Voicing|4|SATB}}<br> | {{Voicing|4|SATB}}<br> | ||
{{Genre|Sacred|Hymns}} | {{Genre|Sacred|Hymns}} {{meter|86. 86 (C.M.)}} | ||
{{Language|English}} | {{Language|English}} | ||
{{Instruments|A cappella}} | {{Instruments|A cappella}} | ||
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==Original text and translations== | ==Original text and translations== | ||
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{{Text|English| | |||
How changed the face of nature shows, | |||
How gay the rural scene! | |||
A fairer bloom the flowers disclose, | |||
The meads a livelier green. | |||
While beauty clothes the fertile vale, | |||
And blossoms on the spray, | |||
And fragrance breathes in every gale, | |||
How sweet the vernal day! | |||
And hark! the feathered warblers sing! | |||
Tis nature's cheerful voice; | |||
Soft music hails the lovely spring, | |||
And woods and fields rejoice.}} | |||
{{middle|3}} | |||
{{Text|Simple| | |||
How kind the influence of the skies! | |||
These showers, with blessings fraught, | |||
Bid verdure, beauty, fragrance rise, | |||
And fix the roving thought. | |||
O let my wondering heart confess, | |||
With gratitude and love, | |||
The bounteous hand that deigns to bless | |||
The garden, field, and grove. | |||
That bounteous hand my thoughts adore, | |||
Beyond expression kind, | |||
Hath sweeter, nobler gifts in store, | |||
To bless the craving mind.}} | |||
{{middle|3}} | |||
{{Text|Simple| | |||
That hand, in this hard heart of mine | |||
Can make each virtue live, | |||
And kindly showers of grace divine | |||
Life, beauty, fragrance give. | |||
O God of nature, God of grace, | |||
Thy heavenly gifts impart! | |||
And bid sweet meditation trace | |||
Spring blooming in my heart! | |||
Inspired to praise I then shall join | |||
Glad nature's cheerful song : | |||
And love and gratitude divine | |||
Attune my joyful tongue.}} | |||
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- Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2015-08-28). Score information: Unknown, 1 page, 53 kB Copyright: Public Domain
- Edition notes: Note shapes added (4-shape). Two more pairs of stanzas from Steele's poem added below.
General Information
Title: Vernal Day
First Line: When verdure clothes the fertile vale
Composer: Oliver Holden
Lyricist: Anne Steele
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Hymn Meter: 86. 86 (C.M.)
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
Published: 1803
Description: First published in The Charlestown Collection, 1803, p. 50. Words by Anne Steele, published 1780, entitled Written in May, in nine stanzas. Holden used stanzas two and three of Steele's poem in his composition.
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Original text and translations
English text How changed the face of nature shows, |
How kind the influence of the skies! |
That hand, in this hard heart of mine |