Summer song (Walter Cecil Macfarren)
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- (Posted 2023-11-13) CPDL #77280:
- Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-11-13). Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 383 kB Copyright: Personal
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- (Posted 2019-11-08) CPDL #55847:
- Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2019-11-08). Score information: A4, 8 pages, 124 kB Copyright: CPDL
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General Information
Title: Summer song
Composer: Walter Cecil Macfarren
Lyricist: William Cox Bennett
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: a cappella or Keyboard
First published: 1876 in Novello's Part-Song Book (2nd series), Vol. 9, no. 261
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Original text and translations
English text
1 O gentle, gentle summer rain,
Let not the silver lily pine,
The drooping lily pine in vain,
To feel that dewy touch of thine,
To drink thy freshness once again,
O gentle, gentle summer rain.
2 In heat the landscape quivering lies,
The cattle pant beneath the tree,
Through parching air, and purple skies,
The earth looks up in vain for thee,
O gentle, gentle summer rain.
Come thou and brim the meadow streams,
And soften all the hills with mist,
O falling dew, from burning dreams,
By thee shall herb and flower be kissed,
O gentle, gentle summer rain.