Last night this poem - actually it's a song - came to my mind, a song I learned as a child, and I've been Googling it for a bit this morning, but have been unable to find it. These are the words (the accompanying music is played on piano, and it sounds classical to my untrained ears, but of course I don't know the composer of title of the piece).When the spring bedecks the trees with green,
Lovely green, verdant green,
And the birds trill out their warbling notes
To a world awake from winter's dream,
Then all Nature seems to sing a song,
Lovely song, joyous song,
Of our Maker, thoughtful, kind, and good,
Who has loved us all through ages long.
Oh hearken! Hearken once again
For the tiny, rippling rivulet
Joins their song in the glen!
And it sings, hastening to the sea:
"Oh, I'm happy lilting on my way
As I cheer Nature here!"
You see? I remember it well, and can even sing it for you, but Google doesn't seem to recognize it! Could my teacher have written it? And if so, which teacher? I hope you can help me!
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Lovely song, but I can't help you as you want, so sorry.
well i cannot help you......but what lovely lyrics kitts........what a lot of hope they bring forth....
more than that am glad you thought of such a positive song.........
I'm thinking it might be a modern English rendition of a medieval lyric - it has a very "olde English" sound in the first verse, but the second verse doesn't seem to match. Maybe your teacher did write it!
It sounds very much like a mid-nineteenth century Romantic poet. I can't recognise the specific poem, but the poem, and most of all the second stanza is pure nineteenth century British poetry in its style. Maybe it was a poem your teacher set to music?
I agree... I actually thought Robert Louis Stevenson but went through everything I could find of his without seeing this...
I've cross-referenced each line in several search engines and about 14 poetry venues, and the nearest I can pinpoint without actual specifics is that it appears to come from either a Galic or early English song somewhere around the mid 1800's, Certain lines from this seem to lean in that direction, but without a title or author to get spot on is near impossible. Usually 'author unknown' can be from any era.
Perhaps what Doc said ... 'Maybe it was a poem your teacher set to music?' If the teacher is still alive, check with him/her.
Sorry....I only know Poems that start with.."There once was a Woman from Nantucket...."
It seems like a song to me too. Maybe a Unitarian hymn?
Can you record yourself singing it? It sounds like someone trying to emulate Wordsworth.
I tried Google, too. No luck, sorry.
What a good idea, Monique. I did...don't laugh at the sound. It's very tentative, because I can't make loud noises still.
Does this help anyone find it? I know the music is known, but I don't now what it's called,
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I'll come back and have a listen tomorrow Teri... Shane's fast asleep and up at the crack of dawn tomorrow. I wish my headphones worked properly!
Sounds like a Wordsworth, Shelley or maybe Tennyson -- perhaps a bit flowery for him?
Do you recognize the tune, Brad?
Man, why does that tune sound so familiar? Nice voice, btw--very rich.
Because it IS familiar, Jo! And thanks!
OMG, you have a beautiful singing voice!
Is it "In Godda Davida?
Never heard of it...going to look now, Guy!
*blushing* Thank you!
Oh God, don't go looking, I was being a smartass.
Okay...how shall I punish you, now? Hmmm???
Isn't there a song by that tune that begins something like this...In the very merry month of May???
I dunno...maybe!
OMG before I got here from her note I was thinkin' the SAME thing!! LOL
guess not tho'...
Teri, listening to you sing it puts me to mind of "My Fair Lady", perhaps it's a movie tune...
Hope you figure this out cuz now it's stuck in my head despite the heavy metal music already squirrelin' around in there...
Dang Woman...You got some darn nice pipes!
*smiles* Thanks, Tom! Very sweet of you!
Methinks you need some friends who were Music Majors instead of English Majors. That tune has got to be known by someone!
I know...I am despairing of finding anyone who recognizes my tune! I mean, in my head I can HEAR the piano being played, each note carefully struck, the trills, everything!
If nobody here can help (English Majors all) do you know any Music Teachers or Choir Directors, etc.?
I suppose next week I can ask the music teacher at my school. I'm sure he will know it. Maybe I can send him a link and ask him to listen and tell me what he thiunks the music is.
the tune is something classical... I isolated it and it appears to be a piece that someone attached these words to...
Okay...what's it called, Martha?
don't know yet but my memory says we've heard it...
(prolly in a cartoon)
I remember this as a song from school even the piano playing it but sorry nothing more
When I attended the Quaker school Brookfield , in Wigton , Cumberland , UK we were taught this son in girls singing lessons & I still remember it & still , at the age of 79 , still enjoy singing it ........but only when I'm alone ! Our lovely teacher was Miss Potter , later to become Mrs Maxwell , who was only a few years older than us . I think she still lives in Wigton
Thank you Mrs. Maxwell , I still recall many of your songs & although I became a nurse.......not an opera singer , I'll always be grateful to you .
E. James
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