Spring’s Secrets
Music: Alexander Mackenzie (1847–1935) · Words: Alfred Perceval Graves (1846–1931)
As once I paused on poet wing In the green
heart of a grove,
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The words
As once I paused on poet wing In the green
heart of a grove,
I met the Spirit of the Spring With her great
eyes lit of love.
She took me gently by the hand And whispered
in my ravished ear
Secrets
none may understand, Till she make their
meaning clear.
Why the primrose looks so pale Why the rose is
set with thorns: Why the magic nightingale
Through the darkness mourns and mourns.
How the angels, as they pass In their vesture
pure and white O’er the shadowy garden grass,
Touch the lilies into light.
How their hidden hands upbear the fledgling
throstle in the air.
And lift the lowly lark on high And hold him
singing in the sky What human hearts delight
her most?
The careless child with roses crowned,
The mourner, knowing that his lost The
mourner, knowing that his lost Shall in
th’Eternal Spring be found, shall in
th’Eternal Spring be found, be found.
About this song
- Music
- Alexander Mackenzie (1847–1935) (dates as OpenScore states them)
- Words
- Alfred Perceval Graves (1846–1931) (dates as IMSLP states them)
- Language
- English, as its source states it
- First published
- in or before 1890, as IMSLP states it
- Length
- 2:57
- Its source files it as
- Spring Songs, Op.44
- The score
- OpenScore Lieder Corpus; CC0 1.0, as its source states it. OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0)
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