The Song of the Gale (Myles Birket Foster)

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• (Posted 2023-10-17)  CPDL #76390:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-17).   Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 608 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: The Song of the Gale
Composer: Myles Birket Foster
Lyricist: Henry Shapcott Bunce
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: Piano

First published: 1922 Novello and Co.
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Original text and translations

English text

I waken the slumbering ocean,
He rises in rage and might,
But I laugh at his foaming fury,
I laugh at his foaming fury,
And sport with the billows white;
They rear and dash, with a thunder crash,
As I speed on my long, wild flight.

I shout in the gloomy forest!
The trees in my grasp I shake,
The yellow leaves dance before me,
The green from their boughs I break;
My clarions sound in the deeps profound,
As my way through the woods I take.

Afar through the boundless heavens,
The white-winged clouds I chase,
And I laugh! As I see them flying
Across the old moon’s white face;
In wild delight I mock at their fright,
And I cry— “O ye clouds, give place!”