The Water-Lily (John Hyatt Brewer)

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• (Posted 2023-09-27)  CPDL #75802:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-09-27).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 568 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: The Water-Lily
Composer: John Hyatt Brewer
Lyricist: Emanuel Geibel
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1893 Arthur P. Schmidt
Description: Op. 24, No. 2

Original text and translations

English text

The quiet Water-lily
From the blue lake rises up,
The leaves are glistening and flashing,
And white as snow the cup.

The moon from out the heavens
Pours all her silver beams—
Pours down into its bosom
The light in shining streams.

Around her in the water
Circles a snow-white swan;
He sings so low, so sweetly,
On the flower looking down.

He sings so low, so sweetly,
And in singing would die away;
O flower! snow-white flower!
Canst thou not rede the lay?

transl. H. K. R.