A 1906 adaptation to Mendelssohn’s “Spring Song”
Words by Arthur J. Lamb.
Music by Felix Mendelssohn.
Arranged by Rudolf Thaler.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment – Welte player piano roll
scanned by Terry Smythe:
Lyrics
In the gentle springtime when the birds and flowers
Make love with you in natures fairest bowers
Then you and I as in the days gone by
Will dream love’s dream while fleet the sunny hours
In dale or dell, in forests fair
To see where tower the mountain heights
In all their majesty
By ocean’s shore, or wooded grove
I’ll sigh to thee
I’ll sigh to thee of my true love
The worlds delight we two will prove
Then come with me, my love
Then come with me, my own true love
Then come with me, my own true love
In ecstasy, oh come with me
Hark! the winds are sighing and the nightingale
Is telling sweetest music in the enchanted tale
And see the golden moon dawns fair
On high to glorify
And tell us love can never die
No! love can never die
For nature lives alone thro’ love
Then why not you and I?
So lift our hearts to heaven above
O come with me, my own true love
O come with me, my own true love
In ecstasy, my own true love
In ecstacy, O come with me
O come with me