Where the Wood-Fairies Dwell (Thomas William Hubbard)

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• (Posted 2023-10-30)  CPDL #76832:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-30).   Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 567 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: Where the Wood-Fairies Dwell
Composer: Thomas William Hubbard
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB, A divisi
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1882 Thomas W. Hubbard
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Original text and translations

English text

Come, come to the forest, the summer is here,
The wood-fairies soon will have fled;
Ere long will come winter so lonely and drear,
The leaves be snow-laden and dead.

Come, come to the forest where cool shadows creep,
And bright, laughing waters run free,
In cups of the flowers the wood-fairies sleep,
Come, come to the forest with me.
Come, come to the forest where the wood-fairies dwell,
O come, come away,
They sleep in the flowers that are blooming in the dell,
O come, come away.
Come away where the wood-fairies dwell.

Come, come to the forest, the summer is here;
The fairies are dancing in glee,
They skip and they frolic in yellow moonlight,
Come, come to the forest with me.

Come, come to the forest, the summer is here;
The birds are all singing in glee,
The robin and bluebird are piping their lay;
Come, come to the forest with me.

Elizabeth F. Hubbard