Nights o’ Spring (Paul Ambrose)

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• (Posted 2023-09-15)  CPDL #75422:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-09-15).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 544 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Nights o’ Spring
Composer: Paul Ambrose
Lyricist: Bertha Ochsner
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1925 Arthur P. Schmidt
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Original text and translations

English text

Away with the light of garish day,
   And the gaudy sun of labor’s fray;
None of your work, and all of your play
   With the greenest elf and the whitest jay;
      In the laugh-away nights o’ Spring.

From out the shadows, when all is still,
   In the misty valley and dewy rill,
The fairy folk troop, and merrily Jill
   The mossy wheel of the haunted mill;
      In the laugh-away nights o’ Spring.

And the rippling brook in its gurgling flight,
   Reflects in a sparkle the dancing light
Of a thousand fireflies in the night,
   And the glowworm jewels of a queenly sprite;
      In the laugh-away nights o’ Spring.

Nay, lock me I pray, in a stern gray tower,
   A dragon to guard me with eyes that glower,
Far better were this than to miss one hour
   With the mystic breath of the lotus flower;
      In the laugh-away nights o’ Spring.

Away with the flight of garish day,
   And the gaudy sun of labor’s fray,
None of your work, and all of your play
   With the greenest elf and the whitest jay;
      In the laugh-away nights o’ Spring.