Spring Is Not Dead
Music: Alexander Mackenzie (1847–1935) · Words: Alfred Perceval Graves (1846–1931)
Snow on the earth; though March is well nigh
over,
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The words
Snow on the earth; though March is well nigh
over,
Ice on the flood;
Fingers of frost where late the hawthorn cover
burgeoned with bud.
Yet in the drift the patient primrose hiding,
Yet in the stream the glittering troutlet
gliding, Yet from the root the sap still upward
springing, Yet overhead one faithful skylark
singing “Spring is not dead!”
Spring is not dead, is not dead!
Brows fringed with snow, the furrowed brows of
sorrow,
Cheeks pale with care:
Pulses of pain that throb from night till
morrow;
Hearts of despair!
Oh, yet take comfort, still your joy
approaches, Dark is the hour that on the dawn
encroaches, Appril’s own smile shall yet
suc- ceed your sighing April’s own voice set
every song bird crying, “Spring is not dead,”
“Spring is not dead, is not dead!”
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
- 2:54
- 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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