Vermont Songs: Caroline (Kenneth Langer)

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• (Posted 2025-05-22)  CPDL #85025:         

Editor: Kenneth Langer (submitted 2025-05-22).   Score information: Letter, 7 pages, 125 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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General Information

Title: Vermont Songs: Caroline
Composer: Kenneth Langer
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Chorale

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 2025
Description: 

Original text and translations

English text

O, Corydon, hear the sad cries of Caroline, plaintive and slow. What sorrowful sounds do I hear move slowly along in the gale? Sweet Corydon's notes are all o'er, now silent he sleeps in the clay. Sweet woodbines will rise round his tomb and willows their sorrowing wave; young hyacinths freshen and bloom while hawthorns encircle his grave. Each morn when the sun gilds the east the green grass besprinkled with dew will cast his bright beams to the west to charm the sad Caroline's view.

O, Corydon, hear the sad cries of Caroline, plaintive and slow. O spirit look down from the skies and pity thy mourner below. Since Corydon's deaf to my song, in gloom let the woodlands appear; ye oceans, be still of your roar, let Autumn extend 'round the year. I'll hie me through meadows and lawn. Since Corydon's deaf to my song in gloom let the woodlands appear; ye oceans, be still of your roar, let Autumn extend 'round the year. There cull the sweet flowers of May and waft my young spirit away.