When gossips love (Archibald Carlyle Mounsey)

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• (Posted 2023-11-17)  CPDL #77426:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-11-17).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 399 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: When gossips love
Composer: Archibald Carlyle Mounsey
Lyricist: William Davies
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1870 F. Pitman
Description: 

Original text and translations

English text

SUMMER SONG

When gossips love to sit i’th’ sun;
And bees come laden home at noon:
When fledgling birds begin to call;
And peaches ripen on the wall:
O, then is the sweet haytime:
The merry, merry playtime.
Sing, Ho! The sweet summer prime:
The happy, humming time.

When swallows skim the glassy pool;
And cattle seek the shallows cool:
When lads and lasses all arow
After the mowers blithely go:
O, then is the sweet haytime:
The merry, merry playtime.
Sing, Ho! the sweet summer prime:
The happy, humming time.

When oft at eve the shepherd lad
Pipes beneath the oak tree shade;
And men and maidens to the sound
With nimble footsteps beat the ground:
Then what a merry playtime
Is the happy, happy haytime!
Sing, Ho! the sweet summer prime:
The golden, flowery time.