Autumn, Op.8, no.3 (Alexander Campbell Mackenzie)

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• (Posted 2020-01-01)  CPDL #56478:         

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2020-01-01).   Score information: A4, 8 pages, 118 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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General Information

Title: Autumn
Composer: Alexander Campbell Mackenzie
Lyricist: Nathaniel A. Haven

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: Piano

First published: 1879 in Novello's Part-Song Book (2nd series), Vol. 12, no. 353
Description: Setting of vv.2 & 4 of a longer poem.

Original text and translations

English text

Autumn! I love thy bower
With faded garlands drest:
How sweet, alone to linger there,
When tempests ride the midnight air!
To snatch from mirth a fleeting hour,
The sabbath of the breast!

Autumn! thy fading flowers
Droop but to bloom again;
So man, though doom’d to grief awhile,
To hang on fortune’s fickle smile,
Shall glow in heaven with nobler powers,
Nor sigh for peace in vain.