Elm and Ivy (Sylvester W. Holdredge)

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• (Posted 2023-10-29)  CPDL #76786:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-29).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 332 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Elm and Ivy
Composer: Sylvester W. Holdredge
Lyricist: Martin Farquhar Tupper
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1885 Oliver Ditson & Co.
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Original text and translations

English text

    The elm tree of old
    Felt lonely and cold
When wintry winds blew high;
    And looking below,
    He saw, in the snow,
The ivy wandering nigh;
    And he said, “Come twine
    With those tendrils of thine
My scathed and frozen form;
    For, heart and hand,
    Together we’ll stand,
And mock at the baffled storm.”
    And so, when grief
    Is withering the leaf,
And checking hope’s young flower,—
    And frosts do bite
    With their teeth so white,
In disappointment’s hour,—
    Tho’ it might o’erwhelm
    Either ivy or elm,
If each stood alone in strife,
    If heart and hand
    Together they stand,
They may laugh at the troubles of life.