Autumn, Op.8, no.3 (Alexander Campbell Mackenzie)
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- (Posted 2023-11-14) CPDL #77315:
- Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-11-14). Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 384 kB Copyright: Personal
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- (Posted 2020-01-01) CPDL #56478:
- Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2020-01-01). Score information: A4, 8 pages, 118 kB Copyright: CPDL
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General Information
Title: Autumn
Composer: Alexander Campbell Mackenzie
Lyricist: Nathaniel A. Haven
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: a cappella or Keyboard
First published: 1879 in Novello's Part-Song Book (2nd series), Vol. 12, no. 353
Description: Part Songs for Mixed voices, Opus 8, No. 3
Setting of vv.2 & 4 of a longer poem.
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Original text and translations
English text
Autumn! I love thy bower
With faded garlands drest:
How sweet, alone to linger there,
When tempests ride the midnight air!
To snatch from mirth a fleeting hour,
The sabbath of the breast!
Autumn! thy fading flowers
Droop but to bloom again;
So man, though doom’d to grief awhile,
To hang on fortune’s fickle smile,
Shall glow in heaven with nobler powers,
Nor sigh for peace in vain.