Spring

Sound the Flute!
Now [it's]1 mute.
Birds delight
Day and Night;
Nightingale
In the dale,
Lark in Sky,
Merrily, Merrily, Merrily,
To welcome in the Year.

Little Boy,
Full of Joy;
Little Girl,
Sweet and small;
Cock does crow,
So do you;
Merry voice,
Infant noise;
Merrily, Merrily, 
To welcome in the Year.

Little Lamb,
Here I am;
Come and [lick
My white neck;]2
Let me pull
Your soft Wool;
Let me kiss
Your soft face;
Merrily, Merrily, 
[We]3 welcome in the Year.

by William Blake (1757-1827) , "Spring", from Songs of Innocence and Experience, in Songs of Innocence, no. 15, published 1789

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

by James R. Adler (1950-) , "Spring", 1982 [men's chorus and piano], from Songs of Innocence and of Experience, no. 1.
by R. Graham Anderson , "Sound the Flute", c1908. [two-part song for trebles]
by (Thomas) Athanasios Aronis (1935-) , "Spring", from Blake Song Cycle, no. 5.
by Harold Blumenfeld (1923-) , "Spring: Sound the Flute", 1972-3 [double mixed chorus, with mezzo-soprano and tenor soli and orchestra], from Songs of Innocence, no. 2.
by Jacques (Jacob) Blumenthal (1829-1908) , "Spring", published 1878 [four-part song for SATB chorus a cappella], from Songs of Innocence, no. 4.
by William Bolcom (1938-) , "Spring", 1956-81 [soloists, madrigal group, chorus, orchestra], from Songs of Innocence, no. 8.
by Rutland Boughton (1878-1960) , "Spring", op. 34a no. 3, published 1912, from Six Unison Songs, no. 3.
by Frederick Matthias Breydert (1909-) , "Sound the flute", published c1950, from Four Rounds, no. 1, Boston, Boston Music Co.
by (William) Havergal Brian (1876-1972) , "Spring - Sound the Flute!", published c1922. [part-song for SSA and piano]
by (Edward) Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) , "Sound the Flute!", op. 44 no. 11 (1949) [soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor, mixed choir, boys' choir, orchestra], from Spring Symphony, no. 11.
by Christopher Roland Brown (1943-) , "Sound the Flute", op. 29 no. 4 [madrigal], from Four Madrigals for Unaccompanied Mixed Voices, no. 4.
by John Charlton Crawford (1931-) , "Spring", published 1965 [soprano, piano], from Songs of Innocence, no. 3.
by John Charlton Crawford (1931-) , "Spring", first performed 1976 [women's chorus, piano], from Three Blake Songs, no. 2.
by John Charlton Crawford (1931-) , "Spring", published c1978 [women's chorus (SSA) and piano], from Two Blake Songs, no. 2.
by William Crust , "Sound the flute", published c1964. [unison song for children's or women's chorus and piano]
by Celius Dougherty (1902-1986) , "Sound the Flute!"
by Geoffrey Gwyther , "Spring", published 1917 [medium voice and piano], from Seven Poems from Blake's "Songs of Innocence", no. 4, London, The Poetry Bookshop
by Fritz Bennicke Hart (1874-1949) , "Spring", op. 13 (Seven songs) no. 5 (1913) [voice and piano], first setting
by Eugene Hartzell (1932-2000) , "Spring song", 1969 [medium voice and orchestra], from Spring and Three Flowers, no. 1.
by Walter MacNutt (1910-1996) , "Spring", 1949, from Two Songs of William Blake from "Songs of Innocence", no. 2.
by Joseph Roff (1910-1993) , "Sound the flute", published 1959 [unison or SA voices acc.], part of the sung text is by Robert Browning; New York, Leeds Music Corp.

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