by Charles Mackay (1814 - 1889)
O the merry, merry spring!
Language: English
The merry, merry spring, the bright, bright spring What joy she shakes from her flow'ry wing! When youth bird sings from its leafy nest How happy it sleeps on its Mother's breast How sweet to roam at beauty's side Thro' glens, and bells, and woondland's wide How sweet to sit by a fountain clear And whisper love to a Maiden's ear! O the merry, merry Spring, the bright, bright Spring What joy she shakes from her flow'ry wing! At merry, merry morn, or Evening still, How sweet to roam by the balmy hill; To call a wreath of the flowrets rare To twine 'mid the locks of a Maiden's hair; How sweet to fly from care and strife And the dull cold round of City life To roam the wood and shady grove And plight out troth, To the Maid we love!
Text Authorship:
- by Charles Mackay (1814 - 1889) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Elizabeth Mounsey (1819 - 1905), "O the merry, merry spring!", published 1837? [ voice and piano ], from Songs of Remembrance, the Music composed ... by Miss Mounsey, no. 5, London : T. E. Purday [sung text checked 1 time]
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