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by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)

Over the land is April
Language: English 
Over the land is April,
Over my heart a rose;
Over the high, brown mountain
The sound of singing goes.
Say, love, do you hear me,
Hear my sonnets ring?
Over the high, brown mountain,
Love, do you hear me sing?

By highway, love, and byway
The snows succeed the rose.
Over the high, brown mountain
The wind of winter blows.
Say, love, do you hear me,
Hear my sonnets ring?
Over the high, brown mountain,
[I sound the song of spring, 
I throw the flowers of spring. 
Do you hear the song of spring? 
Hear you the songs of spring?]1

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   R. Quilter 

View original text (without footnotes)
1 Quilter: "Love, do you hear me, do you hear, / Do you hear the song of spring?"

Text Authorship:

  • by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894), "Over the land is April" [author's text checked 1 time 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 Ernest Charles (1895 - 1984), "Over the land is April", published <<1940 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Roger Quilter (1877 - 1953), "Over the land is April", op. 26 (Two songs) no. 2 (1922), published 1922 [ voice and piano ], London, Elkin [sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this page: Ian Davis

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 19
Word count: 102

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