’Tis sweet to hear the merry lark (John Pointer)

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• (Posted 2023-11-29)  CPDL #77698:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-11-29).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 378 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: ’Tis sweet to hear the merry lark
Composer: John Pointer
Lyricist: Hartley Coleridge
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1906 Novello and Co.
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Original text and translations

English text

’Tis sweet to hear the merry lark,
That bids a blithe good-morrow;
But sweeter to hark, in the twinkling dark,
To the soothing song of sorrow.
Oh nightingale! What doth she ail?
And is she sad or jolly?
For ne’er on earth was sound of mirth
So like to melancholy.

The merry lark, he soars on high,
No worldly thought o’ertakes him;
He sings aloud to the clear blue sky,
And the daylight that awakes him.
As sweet a lay, as loud, as gay,
The nightingale is trilling;
With feeling bliss, no less than his,
Her little heart is thrilling.

Yet ever and anon, a sigh
Peers through her lavish mirth;
For the lark’s bold song is of the sky,
And hers is of the earth.
By night and day, she tunes her lay,
To drive away all sorrow;
For bliss, alas! to-night must pass,
And woe may come to-morrow.