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Here ya go, etoain...musical and suitable, and definitely in the public domain! SPRING
by William Blake
Sound the flute! Now it's 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; Let me pull Your soft wool; Let me kiss Your soft face; Merrily, merrily we welcome in the year.
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In my searchings I uncovered that blake's Spring and all his Songs of Innoncence were set to music for men's chorus by Adler in 1982! In some places the text is printed with what seems to be an original unedited version (the audacity to edit Blake!) where the ending couplet (and refrain) for each stanza goes like this, respectively:
Merrily, merrily, merrily, To welcome in the year.
Merrily, merrily, merrily, To welcome in the year.
Merrily, merrily, merrily, We welcome in the year.
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Whit, those are both great! thanks! and good thought about the Frost Estate. seeing as I'm from Vermont and all...
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re: Frost's "Pasture Spring"
Pasture Spring? Aren't we getting a little ahead of ourselves? It isn't even past your winter yet! In fact, the leaves are still Falling (and lining the streets)!
(November 24 comes before December 21)
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> Aren't we getting a little ahead of ourselves?
Something about four seasons in one day, I guess.
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It's spring (or almost summer) in NZ and Australia. Doesn't that count for something? Hi sjm! Aren't we all being a little nord-o-centric?
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The linking motif is frost, of course ...
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