The Boy and the Brook (Charles Wakefield Cadman)

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• (Posted 2023-09-29)  CPDL #75857:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-09-29).   Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 648 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: The Boy and the Brook
Composer: Charles Wakefield Cadman
Lyricist: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: Piano

First published: 1923 Silver, Burdett and Company
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Original text and translations

English text

Brook, from what mountain dost thou come?
    O my brooklet cool and sweet!
I come from yon mountain high and cold,
Where lieth the new snow on the old,
    And melts in the summer heat.

Brook, to what garden dost thou go?
    O my brooklet cool and sweet!
I go to the garden in the vale
Where all night long the nightingale
    Her love-song doth repeat.

Brook, to what fountain dost thou go?
    O my brooklet cool and sweet!
I go to the fountain at whose brink
The maid that loves thee comes to drink,
And whenever she looks therein,
I rise to meet her, and kiss her chin,
    And my joy is then complete.