Skater’s Song (John S. Fearis)

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• (Posted 2023-10-13)  CPDL #76310:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-13).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 441 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Skater’s Song
Composer: John S. Fearis
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1894 J. F. King
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Original text and translations

English text

Away and away o’er the deep sounding tide,
On crystals of silver we sweep and we glide,
The steel is our pinion, our roof the broad blue,
And heaven’s pure breezes our pathway pursue,
Then away, free and gay.

Joyfully, joyfully on we glide,
Merrily over the frozen tide
Speeding so cheerily side by side,
Singing a happy song.
Waking the echoes on every side,
Merrily gliding on.

Through pale mists of evening the sun glimmers still,
And lingers awhile on the brow of the hill;
But now he’s gone down, and with soft tranquil glow,
The moon shines like silver above and below;
Then away, free and gay.

Look up now! how sparkles the star-lighted sky!
And list to the music as onward we fly.
So joyfully, brother, we float and we glide,
In sunlight and moonlight, o’er life’s silver tide.
Then away, free and gay.