The Thresher (Henry Lahee)

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• (Posted 2023-11-07)  CPDL #77066:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-11-07).   Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 490 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: The Thresher
Composer: Henry Lahee
Lyricist: G. Bennett^{create page}
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1872 Tonic Sol-Fa Agency
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Original text and translations

English text

Oh! his limbs are strong as boughs of oak,
And his thews like links of mail.
How his quick breath streams while round him gleams
With a whirl his mighty flail!

For ’tis thump, thump, thump, with right good will,
From morn till set of sun;
And his arm and flail will never fail
Till his daily task be done.

Oh! his heart is light as hearts will be
With a purpose good and strong,
And his strokes keep time to catch the chime
Of his blithely carolled song.

While the boys that ’mid the corn-stacks hide
Echo back his gleesome lay.
As they toss the chaff, and shout and laugh
In the golden noon of day.

But a lesson they may read and learn,
And the Thresher makes it plain,
For the chaff he finds he gives the winds,
But he garners up the grain.

Then ’tis work, work, work, with right good will,
And store the sheaves of truth;
From the precious seed strike husk and weed,
In the harvest-time of youth.