The valley - Stanford, Charles Villiers

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⌛ Period → Late Romantic

◈ Genre / Form Partsongs

♬ Voicing → SATB ¶ Language → English

Parts 4

Instruments A cappella

Pages 12

CPDL # 79444

Editor David Anderson

Posted 2024-03-08

License Personal

¶Lyrics / Text

A fairylike valley, with grim mountains hiding it, Peacefully sleeping ’mong meadowland fair, A river of carmine and silver dividing it, And scent of the wild flowers filling the air. Never a grey mist comes earthwards enshrouding it, There never weepeth cypress or yew, Only the night-shadows lovingly clouding it, Or trellised cirrus with stars peeping through. Up by the braes, where the heather bells cluster Where the windflower blooms and the gorse blossoms be Guarding the lane, see the bright daisies muster The starry battallions by hedgerow and tree. Over the sedges a streamlet is flinging its Frivolous waters in vermeil tinted spray Over the fallow a wild bird is singing its Song of delight to the ears of the day. A valley of dreams, with the dim mountains hiding it, Streamlets of silver through meadowlands fair, A river of carmine and sapphire dividing it, And scent of the wild flowers filling the air.

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