Welcome, sweet Spring! (William Webster Pearson)
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- (Posted 2023-11-27) CPDL #77638:
- Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-11-27). Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 644 kB Copyright: Personal
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General Information
Title: Welcome, sweet Spring!
Composer: William Webster Pearson
Lyricist: Eliza Cook
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1885 Novello, Ewer, and Co.
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Original text and translations
English text
Welcome, all hail to thee! Welcome, Young Spring!
Thy sunray is bright on the butterfly’s wing;
Beauty shines forth in the blossom-robed trees,
And perfume floats by on the soft southern breeze.
Music, sweet music, steals over the earth;
One glad choral song greets the primrose’s birth;
The lark soars above with its shrill matin strain:
The shepherd-boy tunes his reed-pipe on the plain.
Welcome, all hail to thee! heart-stirring May!
Thou hast won from my wild harp a rapturous lay;
And the last dying murmur that sleeps on the string
Is “Welcome, all hail to thee, welcome, Young Spring!”
Music, sweet music, cheers, meadow and lea,
In the song of the blackbird, the hum of the bee;
The loud happy laughter of children at play,
Proclaims how they worship Spring’s beautiful day.