Summer schemes (Hardy, set by G. Finzi, J. Ireland, A. Cooke) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


 When friendly summer calls again,
 	Calls again
 Her little fifers to these hills,
 We'll go - we two - to that arched fane
 Of leafage where they prime their bills
 Before they start to flood the plain
 With quavers,, minims, shakes, and trills.
 	'- We'll go', I sing; but who shall say
 	What may not chance before that day!

 And we shall see the waters spring,
 	Waters spring
 	From chinks the scrubby copses crown;
 And we shall trace their oncreeping
 To where the cascade tumbles down
 And sends the bobbing growths aswing,
 And ferns not quite but almost drown.
 	'- We shall', I say; but who may sing
 	Of what another moon will bring!

Input by Ted Perry

Authorship

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)

Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses

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

Arnold Atkinson Cooke (1906-2005)

Country Songs

Gerald Finzi (1901-1956)

Earth and Air and Rain

John Ireland (1879-1962)

Three Songs to Poems by Thomas Hardy

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