Love and Summer (John Ebenezer West)

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• (Posted 2023-12-18)  CPDL #78301:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-12-18).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 622 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: Love and Summer
Composer: John Ebenezer West
Lyricist: Mary Rowles Jarvis
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1904 Oliver Ditson
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Original text and translations

English text

Down the flowery meadow way,
At the ending of the day,
Love and Summer used to stray
In the happy June-time;

Clover clustered at their feet,
Twilight shadowed their retreat;
Oh! the throstles’ songs were sweet,
Sweeter than at noontime.

Apple blossoms fluttered down,
Woodbine wove its fragrant crown,
On the hedgerow overgrown,
With a wreath of roses.

Never roses were so fair
As the buds unfolding there;
Never flowers grew anywhere
Like the orchard posies.

That was long and long ago.
You were Summer, dear, you know,
I was Love, you told me so,
In the glad June weather.

Long ago, but joys begun,
In that haunt of shade and sun,
Like its flowers have overrun
All our years together.

Though life’s winter now we see,
You are Summer still to me,
And my love transcends for thee,
All its promise olden.

One in heart and aim below,
When for us the amaranths blow,
Hand in hand, dear, may we go
Through the gateway golden.