A Dream of Summer (Clayton Johns)

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• (Posted 2023-11-02)  CPDL #76902:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-11-02).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 267 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: A Dream of Summer
Composer: Clayton Johns
Lyricist: John Greenleaf Whittier
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1906 Oliver Ditson Co.
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Original text and translations

English text

Bland as the morning breath of June
The southwest breezes play;
And, through its haze, the winter noon
Seems warm as summer’s day.
The snow-plumed Angel of the North
Has dropped his icy spear;
Again the mossy earth looks forth,
Again the streams gush clear.

The fox his hillside cell forsakes,
The muskrat leaves his nook,
The bluebird in the meadow brakes
Is singing with the brook.
“Bear up, O Mother Nature!” cry
Bird, breeze, and streamlet free;
“Our winter voices prophesy
Of summer days to thee!”