Gypsy heart (Winton James Baltzell)
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- (Posted 2023-09-15) CPDL #75427:
- Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-09-15). Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 923 kB Copyright: Personal
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General Information
Title: Gypsy Heart
Composer: Winton James Baltzell
Lyricist: Katherine Lee Bates
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1910 Oliver Ditson Co.
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Original text and translations
English text
The April world is misted with emerald and gold;
The meadow-larks are calling sweet and keen;
Gypsy-heart is up and off for woodland and for wold,
Roaming, roaming, roaming through the green.
Gypsy-heart, away!
Oh, the wind—the wind and the sun!
Take the blithe adventure of the fugitive to-day;
Youth will soon be done.
From buds that May is kissing there trembles forth a soul;
The rosy boughs are whispering the white;
Gypsy-heart is heedless now of thrush and oriole,
Dreaming, dreaming, dreaming of delight.
Gypsy-heart, beware!
Oh, the song the song in the blood!
Magic walks the forest; there’s bewitchment on the air.
Spring is at the flood.
The wings of June are woven of fragrance and of fire;
Heap roses, crimson roses, for her throne.
Gypsy-heart is anguished with tumultuous desire,
Seeking, seeking, seeking for its own.
Gypsy-heart, abide!
Oh, the far—the far is the near!
’Tis a foolish fable that the universe is wide.
All the world is here.