Pipe! Red Lip’d Autumn Pipe - Smart, Henry Thomas

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◈ Genre / Form → Partsongs ♬ Voicing → SATB ¶ Language → English

Parts 4

Instruments A cappella

Pages 8

CPDL # 77977

Editor David Anderson

Posted 2023-12-08

License Personal

¶Lyrics / Text

THE PASSING: A MASQUE OF AUTUMN-TIME Pipe!— red-lip’d Autumn— pipe!— Summer, she is dead, sweet maid; Bear her through the listening glade, Strew the way with berries ripe— I have wooed her in the meadow, When she was a sweet young thing, Ere she in the rain-cloud’s shadow Parted from the Spring: Later, I have sported, blither, Often in her in her sunnier hours; She it was who led me whither Spring those fays, the flowers!— Hark!— the breezes are beginning! Strew the leaves— and lightly, tread— Canticles in honour singing Of the beauteous dead! Sing, sad winds, in every place, Vintage-hill and orchard-dell, Where her smile was wont to grace Haunts she loved so well!— Strew the way with berries ripe:— Summer she is dead, sweet maid; O’er her, through the listening glade, Pipe!— red-lip’d Autumn— pipe!

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