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#87596 11/24/02 04:37 AM
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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.








#87597 11/24/02 04:48 AM
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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.


#87598 11/24/02 10:51 AM
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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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#87599 11/24/02 05:11 PM
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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)


#87600 11/26/02 08:57 AM
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> Aren't we getting a little ahead of ourselves?

Something about four seasons in one day, I guess.


#87601 11/26/02 10:59 AM
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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?


#87602 11/26/02 11:01 AM
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The linking motif is frost, of course ...


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