Two Maidens - Lutkin, Peter Christian

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⌛ Period → Romantic

◈ Genre / Form Partsongs

♬ Voicing → SATB ¶ Language → English

Parts 4

Instruments A cappella

Pages 8

CPDL # 77197

Editor David Anderson

Posted 2023-11-10

License Personal

¶Lyrics / Text

A laddie sailed out on a calm blue sea; And two maidens fell a-weeping. “Alas,” said they, “’Tis a doleful day; Mayhap nevermore To the sweet green shore Shall lover to me And brother to thee, Shall lover to thee And brother to me, Come back from the treacherous, smiling sea.” A good ship went down in a wild, wild sea; And two maidens fell a-weeping. The years passed by, And two cheeks were dry:— A wife and a mother, with babe on her knee, Sat crooning a tender old lullaby, Nor thought of the lover beneath the sea;— But at eventide, By a lone fireside, A sister sat weeping for him who had died, Who came nevermore To the bright green shore, To wander with her the sweet meadows o’er.

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