Away, dull care (Howard Kingsbury)

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•  Posted on 2024-05-01(Posted 2024-05-01)  CPDL #80470:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2024-05-01).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 402 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Away, dull care
Composer: Howard Kingsbury
Lyricist: Edward Rowland Sill
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1874 Taintor Brothers
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Original text and translations

English text

There is beauty on the land,
There is splendor on the sea,
Full of glory is the heaven,
And the earth is full of glee:
Every robin in the grass,
Every lark on sunny wing,
Warbles loud a song of joy,
And shall we not also sing?

Then lift the song on high,
And fill the arching sky,
Till every heart shall catch the strain,
And ring the echo back again:
Goodbye, Despair!
Away, dull care!

Though the sunshine sometimes fails,
And the clouds sometimes appear,
Up beyond the clouds, the sun
Ever shines in radiance clear;
Though the daylight fades away
In the shadows of the Even,
’Tis that stars may shine and tell
That the earth is hung in heaven.

Even night with all her shade,
Even Winter with his snow,
Come in beauty to the earth,
And in joyous music go:
Every snowflake is a gem,
Sparkling to the sun afar,
And each shadow of the night
Has a shining silver star.