The Snow, Op. 26, No. 1 (Edward Elgar)
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- Editor: Zach Vreemancreate page (submitted 2012-02-07). Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 157 kB Copyright: Public Domain
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General Information
Title: The Snow
Composer: Edward Elgar
Lyricist: Caroline Alice Elgar
Number of voices: 3vv Voicing: SSA
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: Piano
and 2 violins
First published: 1895
Description:
External websites:
- Two Partsongs at the Petrucci Music Library (IMSLP)
- performance on youtube (transposed down for men's choir)
Original text and translations
English text
O snow, which sinks so light,
Brown earth is hid from sight
O soul, be thou as white as snow,
O snow, which falls so slow,
Dear earth quite warm below;
O heart, so keep thy glow
Beneath the snow.
O snow, in thy soft grave
Sad flow'rs the winter brave;
O heart, so sooth and save, as does the snow.
The snow must melt, must go,
Fast, fast as water flow.
Not thus, my soul, O sow
Thy gifts to fade like snow.
O snow, thou'rt white no more,
Thy sparkling too, is o'er;
O soul, be as before,
Was bright the snow.
Then as the snow all pure,
O heart be, but endure;
Through all the years full sure,
Not as the snow.