The Future (William Wallace Gilchrist)

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• (Posted 2023-10-19)  CPDL #76472:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-19).   Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 667 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: The Future
Composer: William Wallace Gilchrist
Lyricist: Sidney Lanier
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB, divisi
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1908 H. W. Gray Co.
Description: Three Four-part Songs, The words by Sidney Lanier, No. 3

Original text and translations

English text

A SONG OF THE FUTURE

Sail fast, sail fast!
   Ark of my hopes, Ark of my dreams;
   Sweep lordly o’er the drowned Past,
   Fly glittering through the sun’s strange beams;
       Sail fast, sail fast.
Breaths of new buds from off some drying lea
With news about the Future scent the sea:
My brain is beating like the heart of Haste:
I’ll loose me a bird upon this Present waste;
       Go, trembling song,
   And stay not long; oh, stay not long:
   Thou’rt only a gray and sober dove,
   But thine eye is faith and thy wing is love.