The Minstrels (Thomas Crampton)

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• (Posted 2023-10-06)  CPDL #76118:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-06).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 393 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: The Minstrels
Composer: Thomas Crampton
Lyricist: August Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1886 J. Curwen & Sons
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Original text and translations

English text

To welcome mirth and harmless glee,
We rambling minstrels, blithe and free,
With song the laughing hours beguile,
And wear a never-fading smile:
     Where’er we roam,
     We find a home,
And greeting, to reward our toil.

No anxious griefs disturb our rest,
Nor busy cares annoy our breast;
Fearless we sink in soft repose,
While night her sable mantle throws.
     With grateful lay,
     Hail, rising day,
That rosy health and peace bestows!

The Stranger, Act IV
August Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue (1761–1819)
Trans. Benjamin Thompson (1775/6–1816)