Silver Sleigh-Bells (Cuthbert Harris)

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• (Posted 2023-10-24)  CPDL #76598:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-24).   Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 840 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Silver Sleigh-Bells
Composer: Cuthbert Harris
Lyricist: Edgar Allan Poe
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: Piano

First published: 1922 Arthur P. Schmidt
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Original text and translations

English text

Hear the sledges with the bells—
            Silver bells!
What a world of merriment their melody foretells!
    How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,
        In the icy air of night!
    While the stars that oversprinkle
    All the heavens, seem to twinkle
        With a crystalline delight;
    Keeping time, time, time,
    In a sort of Runic rhyme,
To the tintinabulation that so musically wells
        From the bells, bells, bells, bells,
            Bells, bells, bells—
    From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.