Oh, the Summer
Music: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875–1912) · Words: Isabel Ecclestone Mackay (1875–1928)
Oh the summer, glowing, blowing,
Flowers in the sun; Oh the warmth and
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The words
Oh the summer, glowing, blowing,
Flowers in the sun; Oh the warmth and
sweetness, knowing That the winter's done;
Spring is just behind us, dying,
Autumn just before, and flying,
Flying are the days-- No sighing can recall
us one.
Oh!
Oh the summer, the swift breaking Of the early
dawn,
Sweet the blackbird's clear calling,
Sweet, oh sweet the lark's note falling,
thro' the blue the day installing With the
rites of song.
Oh!
Oh the summer, the long fading Of the laggard
light, Crimson gold, and purple shading
Slowly into night. Where the earth and sky are
meeting, Day and dark exchange soft greeting,
Perfect moments, fleeting, fleeting,
Sweetest in their flight, their flight.
Oh the summer, glowing, blowing,
Flowers in the sun; Oh the warmth and
sweetness, knowing That the winter's done;
Spring is just behind us, dying,
Autumn just before, and flying,
Flying are the days-- No sighing can re call
us one.
Oh
Comes the sudden sun, awaking All it breathes
uppon.
Sweet the blackbird's clear calling,
Sweet, oh sweet the lark's note falling,
thro' the blue the day installing With the
rites of song.
Oh! the summer, the long fading Of the laggard
light, Crimson gold, and purple shading
Slowly into night. Where the earth and sky are
meeting, Day and dark exchange soft greeting,
Perfect moments, fleeting, fleeting,
Sweetest in their flight, their flight.
About this song
- Music
- Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875–1912) (dates as OpenScore states them)
- Words
- Isabel Ecclestone Mackay (1875–1928) (dates as IMSLP states them)
- Language
- English, as its source states it
- First published
- in or before 1911, as IMSLP states it
- Length
- 2:07
- Parts
- Soprano, Contralto
- The score
- OpenScore Lieder Corpus; CC0 1.0, as its source states it. OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0)
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