Spring, The Sweet Witch - de Lange, Huub

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"#1 from ''Four Stuart Songs (Huub de Lange)''"

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

Parts 4

Instruments A cappella

Pages 6

CPDL # 27261

Editor Huub de Lange

Posted 2012-10-04

License Personal

¶Lyrics / Text

A Fantasy of snow Fluttering softly to the lawn below! It is the cherry tree whose petals rain In mimicry of winter: a tree so high That the delicate drift of flakes seems from the sky, This boon sky of mid-May. See, once again In the light breeze the branches stir and sway, Softly discharging to the sward below Their mimicry of snow. The daisies, with their innocent eyes, Look up in mild surprise. They star the lawn with white: this heaps it over With its pure billowy cover. Spring, the sweet witch, has stolen, in swift caprice, Winter’s loveliest device, And laughs, mid song and sunshine, to cheat our eyes With her snowy fantasies.