A May Song
Music: Alexander Mackenzie (1847–1935) · Words: Alfred Perceval Graves (1846–1931)
Some go smiling through the grey time,
Under naked, songless bowers: Some go
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The words
Some go smiling through the grey time,
Under naked, songless bowers: Some go
mourning all the May time, ’Mid the laughing
leaves and flowers, ’Mid the laughing leaves
and flowers. Why is this, why is this,
Rosy Bliss Comes to kiss Winter grey?
Why, ah! why Doth Sorrow sigh On the lap of
lovely May, On the lap of lovely May?
Happy love, with song and smiling,
Through the wither’d woodland goes:
Hapless love hath no beguiling From the
redbreast or the rose, From the redbreast or
the rose. This is why Woods may sigh,
Flowers die and hearts be gay: This,
alas! The piteous pass That leaves us mourning
all the May, That leaves us mourning all the
May.
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
- 2:19
- 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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