Hail! young spring (Thomas Arne)

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• (Posted 2023-05-30)  CPDL #73946: 

Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2023-05-30).   Score information: A4, 14 pages, 1.32 MB   Copyright: CC BY SA

Edition notes: Please click on the link for preview/playback/PDF download. This edition includes the original orchestral accompaniment (with parts); a version for keyboard reduction is also available.

• (Posted 2023-05-30)  CPDL #73947: 

Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2023-05-30).   Score information: A4, 7 pages, 354 kB   Copyright: CC BY SA

Edition notes: Please click on the link for preview/playback/PDF download. This edition includes a reduced keyboard accompaniment

General Information

Title: Hail! young spring
Composer: Thomas Arne
Lyricist: Anonymous
Number of voices: 1v   Voicing: solo high
Genre: Secular, Aria

Language: English
Instruments: Strings

First published: 1777
Description: "A welcome to the spring sung by Mrs Farrell in the Theatre Royal at Covent Garden and at Ranelagh".

Original text and translations

English text

Hail! young spring, the earth adorning,
Drive old winter far away;
Wake the rosy-finger'd morning;
Deck the sun in radiance gay.

Flora, bring thy sweetest treasure,
Zephyr, waft thy softest gale;
Chant, ye birds, the song of pleasure;
Echo warble it through the vale.

Leafless, tuneless, unendearing
Stood the long deserted grove;
But, sweet spring, at thy appearing,
All is harmony and love.