Spring - Tenney, John Harrison

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◈ Genre / Form Glees

♬ Voicing → SATB ¶ Language → English

Parts 4

Instruments A cappella

Pages 12

CPDL # 80910

Editor David Anderson

Posted 2024-06-11

License Personal

¶Lyrics / Text

She is with us! she is with us! For I list her gentle sigh, And her music tones of gladness, Floating through the branches dry. Now the south wind lifts the carpet Spread beneath the forest old; Waketh up the scented violet From her bed of richest mould. Softly trills the little sparrow, Pecking seeds from out the sod; And the robin, o’er me flying, Lifts his anthem up to God. To the hollow oak returneth, Yet again, the blue-bird bright! And the quail beside the hedges Runs and whistles with delight. Now the brooklet is unfettered, Swollen by the melted snow; Shining like a thread of silver,— Singing through the vale below; Tokens of the happy spring time, On the hill-side by the brook; Emerald grasses, velvet mosses, Smile from many a sunny nook. On the cottage eaves alighting, Swallows in the sun-light sing; Filling all the air around me With their joyous twittering. O’er the deep blue upper ocean, Little white-wing’d barges fly; Melting out, like fairy phantoms, ’Neath the day-god’s burning eye. Sap is welling, leaf-buds swelling, Springing towards their shining goal; Bursting from their darkened dwelling, Like the freed immortal soul. Spring is with us! she is with us! New life wakes in every vein; Fresh hopes in my heart are welling, As I welcome her again!

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