The Water! The Water! (Horace Estabrook Kimball)

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  • (Posted 2023-11-05)  CPDL #76966:     
Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-11-05).   Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 514 kB   Copyright: Personal
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General Information

Title: The Water! The Water!
Composer: Horace Estabrook Kimball
Lyricist: William Motherwell
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: SecularPartsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1869 Root & Cady
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Original text and translations

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The water! the water!
The joyous brook for me,
That tuneth thro’ the quiet night
Its ever-living glee;
That tuneth thro’ the quiet night
Its ever living glee.
The water! the water!
That sleepless, merry heart,
Which gurgles on unstintedly,
And loveth to impart
To all around it some small measure
Of its own most perfect pleasure.

The water! the water!
The gentle stream for me,
That gushes from the old gray stone,
Beside the elder tree;
That gushes from the old gray stone,
Beside the alder tree.
The water! the water!
That ever bubbling spring
I loved and looked on while a child,
In deepest wondering,—
And asked it whence it came and went,
And when its treasures would be spent.

The water! The water!
The merry, wanton brook,
That bent itself to pleasure me,
Like mine old shepherd crook;
That bent itself to pleasure me,
Like mine old shepherd crook.
The water! the water!
That sang so sweet at noon,
And sweeter still at night, to win
Smiles from the pale, proud moon,
And from the little fairy faces
That gleam in heaven’s remotest places.