The Swallow (Paul Merkus)

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  • (Posted 2024-09-28)  CPDL #82183:         
Editor: Paul Merkus (submitted 2024-09-28).   Score information: A3, 4 pages, 192 kB   Copyright: CPDL
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General Information

Title: The Swallow
Composer: Paul Merkus
Lyricist: Charlotte Smithcreate page
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Unknown

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 2024
Description: The swallow announces spring

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Original text and translations

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The gorse is yellow on the heath,
The banks with speedwell flowers are gay,
The oaks are budding; and beneath,
The hawthorn soon will bear the wreath,
The silver wreath of May.

The welcome guest of settled Spring,
The Swallow too is come at last;
Just at sun-set, when thrushes sing,
I saw her dash with rapid wing,
And hail'd her as she pass'd.

Come, summer visitant, attach
To my reed roof your nest of clay,
And let my ear your music catch
Low twittering underneath the thatch
At the gray dawn of day.