The valley (Charles Villiers Stanford)
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- (Posted 2024-03-08) CPDL #79444:
- Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2024-03-08). Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 617 kB Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes:
General Information
Title: The valley
Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford
Lyricist: Patrick MacGill
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1922 Deane & Sons The Year Book Press
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Original text and translations
English 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.