# Spring’s Secrets

- Music: Alexander Mackenzie (died 1935)
- Words: Alfred Perceval Graves (died 1931)
- Licence of the score: CC0 1.0
- Credit: OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0)
- Source: https://musescore.com/openscore-lieder-corpus/scores/6505652

## 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.  

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).