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Songs of Travel Complete Edition Words by Robert Louis Stevenson Music by R. Vaughan Williams Low Voice Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers Limited London - Paris - Bonn - Johannesburg - Sydney - Toronto » New York Contents (original key) Page The Vagabond 3 Let Beauty Awake 10 The Roadside Fire re Youth and Love 19 In Dreams 24 The Infinite Shining Heavens 27 Whither must I Wander 30 Bright is the Ring of Words 35 I Have Trod the Upward and the Downward Slope (op. Posth.) 38 The Vagabond. Words by Music by R. L. STEVENSON. R. VAUGHAN. WILLIAMS. Allegro moderato. (alla marcia) Voice. aay Piano. p ma sempre mateato, +7 ve sempre ‘pesante il basso. risoluto. = = Give to me the life I love, Let the lave go = = cS = + = = by me, Give the jol-ly heaven - iI + . ~ bove, And the byway nigh me 4 “a SSS Copyright 1908 by Boosey & C2 Copyright renewed 1999 in U.S. A. by Bootes & 0° Lid. — eee Tonsittaing fSrbjudes 4 oO ‘ eT Gl ea Bread I dip in the Bed in the bush with stars to see, ———— ver Theres the life for aman like : _There’s the life mye) ——j 13 colla voce. Let the blow fall soon or latejLet what will be oer me; Give the face of earth a- round,And the road be fore me, Wealth I seek not, hope nor love, Nor a..... friend to ' SS". =—_—_ seek, the heaven a - bove, - T—1And the road Gt 3) -———_- colla voce Animando. — mf" robustamente. Or = iet au- tumn Where a-field I : Sr # gf, Tobustamente. —_ Si - lenc-ing the => poco f_ on tree, Bit - ing the blue a | —_=—s poco, Ff Lt meno f White | meno ff be ee ee ee 7 a - ty the fire - side ie tpi rot ancora animando. Not =z. ' Tempo I. au-tumn will I yield, lot i ‘The Vagabond. HW. 4743. parlante, Let the blow fall soon or PP) ma marcato. Let what will be Give the face of earth a ~ And the road be - sempre pp Wealth sempre pp ‘The Vagabond. ‘A. 4743 eS \ hope nor love, I Ne a... i t kne lor friend to ow 8 yi — me; All I ask, | the heaven a - bove,_.... colla voce. |The Vagabond. L Let Beauty Awake. I Words by Music by R. L. STEVENSON, R. VAUGHAN WILLIAMS. Moderato. Voice, Piano, from beau - ti - ful THE PUBLIC PERFORMANCE OF ANY PARODIED VERSION (OF THIS COMPOSITION IS STRICTLY PROMIBITEO Copyright 1907 by Boosey & C2 4H. 5587. dreams, Beau - ty a - wake Let Beau-ty a - wake... For Beau - ty’s ——— SE In the hour when the ¥ rH And the stars are bright........ in the west! ie ees brake —= = Ba a 12 “55 poco ralt. in the eve fromthe slum-berof day, agp sonore 2 In the day& dusk imp cantabile Pp tranguillo Let Beau-ty a- wake tranquillo| NS A-wake in thecrim - son Coe end... When the shades as - ———— TS 4H. 5557, init ut p e 3g ee Sey — i Perea - cend,.. Let her wake to the kiss of a ten - der friend, To and re - ceive! espress, = = = SS ee ee ——t : =F = T T 7 4 T —| = = molto rall. Ba, 44 The Roadside Fire. Words by Music by R. L. STEVENSON. R. VAUGHAN WILLIAMS. : _———_———_. Allegretto. poco scherzando. | Veice- will make you Piano. pleggiero. Vv broo - ches toys for your de - light, V birdsong at morn - ing and star - shine at night. Copyright 1905 by Boosry & C2 naria. | + Renewed 1933 in U.S.A. by Boosey & Co., Ltd. 15 =— nf crese. .--Willmake a pa - lace fit for you and me, Of Se ae or errr cre P 5 — green days. in for - ests,and blue days | beetetes betes >» esrirerlltrerl », I willmake my lp yceeeeeiet ! ee ee Pm & Fey —_—. kit-chen, and you shallkeepyour room, Where white flows the | mae 2 | The Roadside Fire, Hants 16 aN mf cresc. _————— f . fi-ver and bright blows the broom; And you. shallwash your are LD) ose | kegato. ——— lin-en, and keep yourbo-dy white morn - ing and dew - fall ‘The Roadside Fire. seer mosso. largament Jee Se no one else hear! That on - ly ———_— —_———_ fcantanto. 5 ———— 18 largamente a aad — Gy —~ mem - ber, thaton- ly you ad - mire, eo too colla voce._ _ | ———-—==—— |pp, fed ~s eS stretch = ~ wl $h tranquillo; andthe road - we una -corda. IL. ad Youth and Love. . | Words by Music by [R. L. STEVENSON. R. VAUGHAN WILLIAMS. > | Andante sostenuto. Voice. “3 | Piano. peshressivo, tempo rubatd, ‘THE PUBLIC PERFORMANCE OF ANY PARODIED VERSION au ments 20 b ther hand, Pp £ 3, chard bloom, on the ley - 22 . \ Poco animando. Thick at night when the gia a. en DO is down Pleasures as - sail him. _¢ |S risoluto. att affrettando, Z, = _bler fate es and but waves sempre f cresc. affrettando. Pit mosso. a Cries. Pil mosso. 6) e word to herv........ it the - dk ‘ord to her. ite re oes gat, ——— . 2 : £ » _ dd 4 a oN Piit mosso. PP Sings but a boy - ish k te 2S bs fee s b Pp Pik mosso. & = Tempo lL ==-—_—_—______ ——— ind his face is fae => gone, al Tempo I. sempre rall e dim Pry Ill. In Dreams. Words by Music by R. L. STEVENSON. R. VAUGHAN WILLIAN / Andantino. 2S i =—— Veice. In dreams un - hap-py,/ I be-hold you tireorr eeerr were pyr ——— a ——_—_"-. as here - to-fore: The un - rememberd to-kens in you r_ co animato No more the morn -_ in nf glow, no more the grace, - shrines, en - dears. | a es? bw ‘poco animando. Cold beats the light of time y up-on your _face.. smorzando, shows your _ tears. tf : ; 'smorzando SURVIWWR —————— and = went. ~—— Per- chance. PoP. =— wept a - while | and then for - got. $ Z x . yf rr " yl _ colla voce. Lil = + 26 : \ empo. ———_— OS but he that left you with vi morendo. PP espressivo. a aL mL ‘a tempo sempre rall. NL en. eon IV. 27 : The Infinite Shining Heavens. Words by Music by R. L. STEVENSON, R. VAUGHAN WILLIAMS. Andante sostenuto. Pp —= 3 The in-fi-nite shiningheavens Rose, and I saw P = TT Piano. pp molto legato. i zd) = in the night Un - count-a -ble stars Shower ded % | K. THE PUBLIC PERFORMANCE OF ANY PARODIED VERSION AU RIGHTS ag: saw them dis - tant as heaven eee shi-ning and dead, And the i stars of the b b - m0 — largamente. ——_ — .. Were dear-er to Night... af-ter night in my — sor - row Pp animando LLL oS stars.... looked 0 ver the Till lot... Bp animando aE I looked in the dusk....... And a star hadcome down ~~ LLL / LiL sempre animando 30 Whither must I wander? Words by Music by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON. R. VAUGHAN WILLIAMS. Andante. ng treguillo VOICE. Home no more home to me,.. go..where I must. whi-ther must I wander? Hun.ger my driver, I +> Cold blows the win-ter wind over hill and hea - ther: Thick drives the Copyright 1912 by Boosey & Co, 4H, 7547 risoluly SS] Lové of... wise men was the rain and my roof is in the dust. —_ t ——— a porto rit — shade of my roof-tree, The true word of welcome was spo.ken in the doo i poco ral. a tempo Pp ———— Dear days of old..with the fa.ces in the fire - light; Kind folks of ———— ———e " ppa tempo a you come again no more. oT s ——— colla voce é S __ a SS Whither must I wander ? H.7547, 82 nif Home was home then,my dear, fall of kind.ly faces, Home was home then, my dear, hap-py for the child. Fire and the win-dows bright glit tered on the moor - eee rt F -land; Song, tune-ful song, built a palace in the wild. risoluto —__——_ H.7547. ‘Whither must I wander? poco rit. a tempo BP chim.ney-stone is cold. -ed, The kind hearts, the true hearts,that loved the place of old. —— ana olla 80C€ t Pp. Spring shall come,come a.gain, eall-ing up the moor-fowl, Spring shall bring the sun and rain, pp legato — —S — bring the bees and flowers; Red shall the heather bloom o.ver hill and val _ 3 Whither must I wander? H. 7547. eley, Soft flow the stream through the e-ven flow. ing hours. =~ Fair the day shine az it shone on my child-hood; Fair shine the day on the Tempo ——, «= aco rt. LB pn ep = house with 0 _pen door. Birds come and ery there and twit-ter in the chim go for e . ver and come a-gain no more = 35 Bright is the ring of words Words by Music by R.L.STEVENSON R. VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Moderato risoluto A VOICE Bright is the ring of words......... When the tight man PIANO risoluto tings them, Fair the fall of songs......... when the sing-er sings them. ite Still they are ca-rolled and said— TTT On wings they are car -ried— mp legato ——— a SS Copyright 1905 by Boosey & Co. All rights reserved Copyright renewed 1933 in U.S.A. by Boosey & Co.,Ltd Printed in England poco rit, And the mak - er —TTIITr tel) ETT sing-er lies... ‘In the field of heath - er, Songs of his

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