Waiting for the May (Henry Lahee)

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• (Posted 2023-11-07)  CPDL #77068:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-11-07).   Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 446 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: Waiting for the May
Composer: Henry Lahee
Lyricist: Denis Florence MacCarthy
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1872 Tonic Sol-Fa Agency
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Original text and translations

English text

Ah! my heart is weary waiting,
Waiting for the May,—
Waiting for the pleasant rambles
Where the fragrant hawthorn-brambles,
With the woodbine alternating,
Scent the dewy way.
Ah! my heart is weary waiting,
Waiting for the May.

Ah! my heart is sore with sighing,
Sighing for the May,—
Sighing for their sure returning,
When the summer beams are burning,
Hopes and flowers that, dead or dying,
All the winter lay.
Ah! my heart is sore with sighing,
Sighing for the May.

Waiting sad, dejected, weary,
Waiting for the May:
Spring goes by with wasted warnings,—
Moonlit evenings, sunbright mornings,—
Summer comes, yet dark and dreary
Life still ebbs away;
Man is ever weary, weary,
Waiting for the May!