Summer Rain (Francesco Berger)

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• (Posted 2023-09-22)  CPDL #75613:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-09-22).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 521 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Summer Rain
Composer: Francesco Berger
Lyricist: Charles Mackay
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1874 Lamborn Cock & Co.
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Original text and translations

English text

My love took shelter under a tree
    From rain, the Summer rain,
And I, by love made bold and free,
    Took shelter with her in the lee
Of the wide, high-spreading chestnut tree,
    And blessed the rain, the rain.
Quoth I, “Dost think the storm will pass?”
Quoth she, “I’m but a silly lass.”
Quoth I, “True love hath rainbow light.”
Quoth she, “Most beautiful and bright!”
Quoth I, “My love is hard to tell.”
Quoth she, “Come close, I’ll listen well!”
    Oh, rain! Oh, rain!
    Oh, blessed rain!
No sunshine ever shall come again,
So dear to me as that stormy rain!