# Spring Is Not Dead

- 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/6507219

## 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!”  

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).