’Tis Spring! (Louis A. Coerne)

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• (Posted 2023-10-04)  CPDL #76045:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-04).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 397 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: ’Tis Spring!
Composer: Louis A. Coerne
Lyricist: Paul Laurence Dunbar
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: Piano

First published: 1920 Oliver Ditson Co.
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Original text and translations

English text

A blue-bell springs upon the ledge,
    A lark sits singing in the hedge;
Sweet perfumes scent the balmy air,
And life is brimming everywhere.
What lark and breeze and bluebird sing,
    Is Spring, Spring, Spring!
No more the air is sharp and cold;
The planter wends across the wold,
And, glad, beneath the shining sky
We wander forth, my love and I.
And ever in our hearts doth ring
    This song of Spring, Spring!
For Iife is life and love is love,
’Twixt maid and man or dove and dove.
Life may be short, life may be long,
But love will come, and to its song
Shall this refrain for ever cling
    Of Spring, Spring, Spring!