# Return of Spring

- Music: Granville Bantock (died 1946)
- Words: Launcelot Alfred Cranmer-Byng (died 1945)
- Licence of the score: CC0 1.0
- Credit: OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0)
- Source: https://musescore.com/openscore-lieder-corpus/scores/6211561

## The words

A lovely maiden, roaming The wild dark valley  
through, Culls from the shining waters Lilies  
and lotus blue.  
With leaves the peachtrees are laden,  
The wind sighs through the haze, And the willows  
wave their shadows Down the oriole haunted  
ways.  
As, passion- tranced, I follow,  
I hear the old refrain Of Spring's eternal  
story, That was old and is young again.  

Songs to sing here are made from public-domain scores: the OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0), the Mutopia Project (each score's licence as Mutopia states it) and the scores in Japanese Wikipedia's articles (CC BY-SA 4.0, by each article's contributors); dates and first publications as IMSLP, the LiederNet Archive, Mutopia and Wikidata state them. Karaoke videos play in YouTube's player; live channels from the iptv-org database on their own pages; stations from Radio Browser. The piano is the Salamander Grand Piano by Alexander Holm (CC BY 3.0).