Snow-flakes (Arthur Cottam)

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• (Posted 2023-10-05)  CPDL #76087:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-05).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 521 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Snow-flakes
Composer: Arthur Cottam
Lyricist: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB, minor T divisi
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1866 Novello, Ewer, and Co.
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Original text and translations

English text

Out of the bosom of the Air,
    Out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken,
Over the woodlands brown and bare,
    Over the harvest fields forsaken,
        Silent and soft and slow
        Descends the snow.

Even as our cloudy fancies take
    Suddenly shape in some divine expression,
Even as the troubled heart doth make
    In the white countenance confession,
        The troubled sky reveals
        The grief it feels.

This is the poem of the air,
    Slowly in silent syllables recorded;
This is the secret of despair,
    Long in its cloudy bosom hoarded,
        Now whispered and revealed
        To wood and field.