The goat bells (Luther Orlando Emerson)

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• (Posted 2024-03-05)  CPDL #79370:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2024-03-05).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 366 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: The goat bells
Composer: Luther Orlando Emerson
Lyricist: Frederick Enoch
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB, S solo
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1871 Oliver Ditson & Co.
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Original text and translations

English text

The shadows o’er the valley steal,
     The star of eve is come,
The maiden leaves her spinning-wheel
     To call the wild flock home;
The goat-bells, on the breezes borne,
     Chime up the pasture plain,
While gaily to her chalet horn
     The echo calls again:
          How sweet by echo borne
          The maiden’s châlet horn!

The hunter wends his weary pace
     Across the twilight snow,
With quick’ning step and bright’ning face
     He hears the horn below.
The night draws on, the day is o’er,
     The flock is gath’red home,
The maiden gains the châlet door
     To find the hunter come.
          How sweet by echo borne
          The maiden’s châlet horn!