The harp of memory (Edward Roberts)

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• (Posted 2024-06-18)  CPDL #80983:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2024-06-18).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 345 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: The harp of memory
Composer: Edward Roberts
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1868 F. J. Huntington & Co.
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Original text and translations

English text

There is a voice in every chord,
A spell in every tone,
That binds the soul in airy chains
When weary and alone.
’Tis heard amid the hush of eve,
When nature’s minstrels sleep,
And jeweled orbs in beauty crown
The wavelet on the deep.

Oh, gentle harp of memory dear,
Thy tender thrilling lays
Are echoes of the loved ones gone,
Our friends of other days.

How many a scene of childhood’s years
Thy trembling notes restore;
We feel the bliss thy music breathes
And live those pleasures o’er.
The verdant bank, the sloping hill
Where oft our path has been,
And all our playmates one by one,
Come back to us again.