# Oh, the Summer

- Music: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (died 1912)
- Words: Isabel Ecclestone Mackay (died 1928)
- Licence of the score: CC0 1.0
- Credit: OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0)
- Source: https://musescore.com/openscore-lieder-corpus/scores/6232117

## 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.  

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).