In a green arbour - de Lange, Huub

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"#3 from ''Four Romantic Poems (Huub de Lange)'', recent settings of poems by Emily Dickinson, William Blake, Alice V. Stuart and A.B. Banjo Peterson"

⌛ Period → Contemporary ◈ Genre → Partsongs ♬ Voicing → SATB ¶ Language → English

Parts 4

Instruments Piano

Pages 16

CPDL # 17418

Editor Huub de Lange

Posted 2008-07-03

License Personal

¶Lyrics / Text

In a green arbour, down by the water side, There as I lay, I heard a bird complain: ‘Sweet, sweet is love in the flowering springtime, but O flown, flown in the cold autumn rain.’ I turned as I lay, and looked at my loved one Lying there lightly, and breathing so near, And in the first sunlight ashift through the branches I learned me by heart the looks of my dear. Though fate should bereave me, or fickle love leave me, I hold my love safely, where nothing can us part, And it still springtime, and the birds still carolling, In the green aisles of memory, deep in my heart.