by Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928)
Summer schemes
Language: English
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!
Authorship:
- by Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928), "Summer schemes", appears in Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses, first published 1922 [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 Arnold Atkinson Cooke (1906 - 2005), "Summer schemes" [ baritone and piano ], from Country Songs [sung text not yet checked]
- by Gerald Finzi (1901 - 1956), "Summer schemes", op. 15 no. 1, published 1936 [ baritone and piano ], from Earth and Air and Rain, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by John (Nicholson) Ireland (1879 - 1962), "Summer schemes", 1925, published 1925 [ voice and piano ], from Three Songs to Poems by Thomas Hardy, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
Researcher for this page: Ted Perry
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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