The Lark’s aloft (Reginald Henry Walker)
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- Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-12-14). Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 519 kB Copyright: Personal
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Title: The Lark’s aloft
Composer: Reginald Henry Walker
Lyricist: Anonymous
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: Piano
First published: 1866 Novello, Ewer, and Co.
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Original text and translations
English text
MAY CAROL
The Lark’s aloft– The wind blows soft–
The merry maids are straying
In open glades, midst verdurous shades,
To list what Love is saying.
Let there be no betraying.
We summon you to join our crew!
And let us go a-Maying!
The hawthorn white bursts into sight
’Mid forest’s green arraying:
And perfume rare breathes on the air,
Hid violets betraying.
We brook no more delaying!
We summon you to join our crew!
And let us go a-Maying!
We wait– we wait beside your gate–
On pipe and tabor playing;
With garlands, boughs, and wreathèd brows,
Our chosen Queen obeying!
Why thus so long delaying?
Up, up away, while breaks the day!
O, let us go a-Maying!