A YOUNG MAN'S EXHORTATION Ten Songs for Tenor and Piano Words by THOMAS HARDY Music by GERALD FINZI Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers Limited Pea Sa ap eee aa sonePART I Mane floreat, et transeat. Ps. 89. A Young Man’s Exhortation “1 t 2 Ditty 5 3 Budmouth Dears I 4 Her Temple 17 5 The Comet at Yell’ham 19 PART II Vespere decidat, induret, et arescat. Ps. 89. 1 Shortening Days ar 2 The Sigh 24 3 Former Beauties 28 4 Transformations 32 5 The Dance Continued 36 Although designed as a cycle the two parts or any of the numbers can be sung’ separately.PART I Mane floreat, et transeat. Ps. 89. 1. 4 Young Man’s Exhortation ‘ALL off your eves from care By some determined deftness; put forth joys Dear as excess without the core that cloys, ‘And charm Life's lourings fair. Exalt and crown the hour ‘That girdles us, and fil it full with glee, Blind glee, excelling aught could ever be Were heedfulness in power. Send up such touching strains ‘That limitless recruits from Fancy’s pack Shall rush upon your tongue, and tender back ‘All that your soul contains. For what do we know best? ‘That a fresh love-leaf crumpled soon will dry, And that men moment after moment die, Ofall scope dispossest. If have seen one thing It is the passing preciousness of dreams; That aspects are within us; and who seems Most kingly is the King. 3. Budmouth Dears HEN we lay where Budmouth Beach is, O, the girls were fresh as peaches, With their tall and tossing figures and their eyes of blue and brown! And our hearts would ache with longing [As we paced from our sing-songing, With a smart Clink! Clink! up the Esplanade and down. They distracted and delayed us By the pleasant pranks they played us, And what marvel, then, if troopers, even of regiments of renown, ‘On whom flashed those eyes divine, O, Should forget the countersign, O, ‘As we tore Clink! Clink! back to camp above the town. Do they miss us much, I wonder, Now that war has swept us sunder, ‘And we roam from where the faces smile to where the faces, frown? ‘And no more behold the features Of the fair fantastic creatures, And no more Clink! Clink! past the parlours of the town? Shall we once again there meet them? Falter fond attempts to greet them? il the gay sling-jacket glow again beside the muslin gown? Will they archiy quiz and con us ‘With a sideway glance upon us, While our spurs Clink! Clink! up the Esplanade and down? 2. Ditty ENEATH a knap where flown stings play, Within walls of weathered stone, Far aws . rom the Ales of formal houses, By the bough the firstling browses, Lives a Sweet: no merchants meet, No man barters, no man sells ‘Where she dwells. Upon that fabric fair Pere is she!" Seems written everywhere Unto me. | But to friends and nodding neighbours, Fellow-wights in lot and labours, Who descry the times as I, No such lucid legend tells ‘Where she dwells. Should I lapse to what I was Ere we met; (Such will not be, but because Some forget Let me feign it)—none would notice ‘That where she I know by rote is Spread a strange and withering change, Like a drying of the wells ‘Where she dwells. To feel I might have kissed— Loved as frue— Otherwhere, nor Mine have missed My life through, Had I never wandered near her, Isa smart severe—severer In the thought that she is nought, Even as I, beyond the dells ‘Where she dwells. And Devotion droops her glance To recall ‘What bond-servants of Chance We are all. 1 but found her ih that, going On my errant path unknowing, I did not out-skirt the spot ‘That no spot on earth excels, —Where she dwells!4. Her Temple D=:. think not that they will forget you: !—If craftsmanly art should be mine Twill build up a temple, and set you ‘Therein as its shrine. ‘They may say: * Why a woman such honour?” —Be told, ‘ O, so sweet was her fame, ‘That a man heaped this splendour upon hers None now knows his name.’ 5. The Comet at Yell’ ham ‘T BENDS far over Yell’ham Plain, And we, from Yell’ham Height, Stand and regard its fiery train, So soon to swim from sight. It will return long years hence, when As now its strange swift shine Will fall on Yell'ham; but not then ‘On that sweet form of thine. PART II Vespere decidat, induret, et arescat. Ps. 89. 1. Shortening Days HE FIRST fire since the summer is lit,and is smoking. into the room: ‘The sun-rays thread it through, like woof-lines in a loom. Sparrows spurt from the hedge, whom misgivings appal ‘That winter did not leave last year for ever, after all. Like shock-headed urchins, spiny-haired, Stand pollard willows, their twigs just bared. ‘Who is this coming with pondering pace, Black and ruddy, with white embossed, His eyes being black, and ruddy his face ‘And the marge of his hair like morning frost? I's the cider-maker, ‘And appletree-shaker, ‘And behind him on wheels, in readiness, His mill, and tubs, and vat, and press. 2. The Sigh TTTLE head against my shoulder, Shy at first, then somewhat bolder, ‘And up-eyeds Till she, with a timid quaver, Yielded to the kiss I gave her; But, she sighed. ‘That there mingled with her feeling Some sad thought she was concealing It implied. —Not that she had ceased to love me, None on earth she set above me; But she sighed. She could not disguise a passi Dread, or doubt, in weakest fashion If she tried: Nothing seemed to hold us sundered, Hearts were victors; so I wondered ‘Why she sighed. Afterwards I knew her throughly, And she loved me staunchly, truly, Till she died; But she never made confession Why, at that first sweet concession, She had sighed. It was in our May, remember; And though now I near November, ‘And abide Till my appointed change, unfretting, Sometimes I sit half regretting That she sighed.3. Former Beauties HESE market-dames, mid-aged, with lips thin-drawn, ‘And tissues sere, [Are they the ones we loved in years agone, ‘And courted here? ‘Are these the muslined pink young things to whom ‘We vowed and swore In nooks on summer Sundays by the Froom, ‘Or Budmouth shore? Do they remember those gay tunes we trod Clasped on the green; Aye; trod till moonlight set on the beaten sod ‘A'satin sheen? They must forget, forget! ‘They cannot know ‘What once they were, ‘Or memory would transfigure them, and show “Them always far. 4. Transformations JORTION of this yew Ts a man my grandsire knew, Bosomed here at its foot: ‘This branch may be his wife, Arruddy human life Now turned toa green shoot. ‘These grasses must be made Of her who often prayed, Last century, for repose; And the fair girl long ago Whom I often tried to know May be entering this rose. So, they are not underground, Bola nerves and eins abound n the growths of upper air, ‘And they feel the sun and ri, ‘And the energy again “That made them what they were! 5. The Dance Continued (Regret not me) GRET not mes Beneath the sunny tree I lie uncaring, slumbering peacefully. Swift as the ight I flew my faery fights statically | moved, and feared no night I did not know ‘That heydays fade and go, But deemed that what was would be always so. | skipped at morn Between the yellowing corn, Thinking it good and glorious to be born. Tran at eves Among the piled-up sheaves, Dreaming, "I grieve no, therefore nothing grieves” Now soon will come The apple, pear, and plum, ‘And hinds will sing, and autumn insects hum. Again you will fre To fidersmakings ar, And junketings but [shall not be there Yet gaily sing UNE sng et oy ey And lightly dance Some triple-timed romance In coupled figures, and forget mischances eAnd, mourn not me neath the yellowing tree; For I shall mind not, slumbering peacefully. The words of these songs are reprinted from the Collected ‘ems of Thomas Hardy by permission of the author's execurors ‘and the publishers, Macmillan &@ Co. Lid.)A YOUNG MAN’S EXHORTATION Ps THOMAS HARDY GERALD FINZI Andante 4-60 f——$—$— Voice Call off your eyes from care —. Piano af cantabile ——— — By some le- ter-mined deft - ness; put forth joys = as ex-cess without the cére that cloys, And All ight reserve Copysigh 188 by Oxford University Pres, Lndan Tonstting oyun Copyright © assigned 1957 to Boosey & Co. Ltd. Printed in Englandallargando poco pit mosso charmLife’s lowrings fair Exhaltandcrownthehour That gir-dles us, allargando poco pid mosso 7 ae i = — That_lim-it-less_re~ cruits from Fan cy'’s_pack Shall rush ovup-on your tongue, and ten- der back AL titardando oo poco meno mosso —_ that your soul ritardan con - tains. Forwi oco Meno mosso t_ do we know ¥ That_a fresh love - leaf crumpled = atempo | ————= oy that men mo-ment af - ter And ary, — a tempo —)mo-ment die, a piacere 1 = molto rit. - -e@- - all molto rit. - 55 dis-possest. scope dim, - * = If I haveseenone thing + - It jae mi is the pass-ing preciousness of dreams; =—— on at > = a _ <= ies? SS pcolla voce molto legato —= eS SS=— Se = SE —_, rit. Rpt == S—=5 ea SS + aos That as-pects arewithin us; andwhoseemsMost kingly is t ony pie —== _ ——DITTY THOMAS HARDY GERALD FINZI Con moto d-e-s00 semplice sostenuto Voice . Be- semplice Piano op -neath a knap where flown Nest-lings play, With - in _ walls=——__ By the bough thefirstling brows-es, Lives F of P Pr — poco rit, bar- ters, no man sells: Where P Ppecoxit. -) OF atempo —_—___—_—_—_—— Jp-on that fa-bric fair “Here mp | atefnps ———————____——"—_ | ¢ = : mF, she? Seems writ - ten ev - ery-where Un - tofriends and nod-ding neigh-bours, Fel - low-wights in lot and —{= senzarit, = — Whodes-cry the times as I, No such lu-cid le-gend tells Where she Ctr Should 1_lapse to what I was Ere we CFknow by rote is — + t oe FF cresc. Bee ==> poco rit. of the wells Where P poco rit. To feel 1 might have kissed— Loved as "mpl atempo 3 —— 2. go> 2 Se 2 a Pe ¢—¥— —— To. tice aa Ywhere she I Spread a__strange and O-ther-where, nor Minehave missed My life through, Had I ne-ver wan-derednear her, fs _a smart se-vere se - ve-rer In the thought = F tenut rm Pesetenuto she is nought, Ev-en as I, be-yondthe dells Where she poco tenuto — Fatempo = Es - plin-ade and They dis-tract-ed and up theBy the pleasant pranks they played us,_Andwhat mar-vel,then, if troopers, even of reg-i-ments of _re-nown, On whom flashed those eyes di-vine, O, Should for - eS_———S—S=_-_= _— the coun- ter- sign, O, As we tore Clink! Clink! = 3Do they miss us much, I won-der, Now that war has swept us sun - der, And we __cresc. .| poco cresc. roam from where the fa-ces smile to where the fa-ces frown? And no Ss more be-hold the fea-tures Of the fair fan-tas- tic crea-tures, And noClink! Clink! past the par - lours of _ the Fees Shall we once a-gain there meet them? Fal - ter fond at-tempts to greet them? Will the ——, — = he C—O gay sling-jack - et glow a-gain be - side the mus-lin gown?—Will they —_— = — 5= zo arch- ly quiz and con us With a side-way glance up-on us, While our —}— ——_——])}_— crescendo » ; Soa spurs Clink? Clink! the Es-plan-ade and down? 16 XIV No.3HER TEMPLE ey THOMAS HARDY GERALD FINZI Espressivo, flowing J- «66 Voice —-——— —=—— Piano my IBfato , Dear, think not __that_ they will for-get you: id — 7 TF RE — PF a__temple, and crafts-man-ly art should be mine I will build CF 4F crese. Rjset_ you There-in as its _ shrine. meno mosso__largamente_- They may say: ‘Why a wo-man such hon our?” —Be meno mosso. = — No mss a “0, so sweet was her fame, That a man heaped this splen-dour_up - i tr t b poco ritardando son pers ‘None now knows his | ‘poco ritardando 18 ‘XIV NogTHE COMET AT YELL’HAM es THOMAS HARDY CERAUDIFINGT Lento decas A Voice 6 ten, - eee cet tees f & fed wddet fie E i! SS Piano )| © zep molto sostenuto e legato ; — bse ees siete: = ee 6 = + + s os Sat: ae SSS - y in, And we, from Yellham a —= ad : at f t SS rallentando + — = SSF its fie- ry train, So soon to rell-ciando) 04 * Accidentals only apply to the notes they precede-_atempo . re ==: = fen sight.. es E but not then On that sweet form of thine.. = FF jan : ona rH ee BE PE ; : = Zz eS a es fed ag eT = rb om Jade ee te dim. ef en o iz 2 # XIV NosSHORTENING DAYS es THOMAS HARDY GERALD FINZI Senza misura }. cas a re he tt hh hs Voie GE te as aa ‘The first fire since the summer is lit, and is smoking in-to the S i oO a — Ea s 8 ei = Piano p= — P =""~ | | | ocorit. eee = 2 i Fi E = = o ve room: The sun-raysthread it_ through, likewooflines in_a loom. = = i os re s = fore: one = ee = = = <= = _pocorit. : ~—b° a tempo a 7. ste e 2 4s z 6 + == we | - wae — — F es 7 een ats hh ¥ + = oe ee Spar-rows spurt from thehedge, whom mis-giv - ings_— ap- pal cain i a\ an rit, +. + a po 2 SS win-ter did _notleave last year _for ev-er, af - ter all. SSS =< 3} sees 8 Ssee 4 rt. Et = Hh T T F - —SSS>S== — their twigs just igs j —— “Pp crescendo pocoapoco. pesante simile ~~ Who is this _com-ingwith pondering pace, Black and rud-dy,___withwhite em- ree ——~- bossed, Hiseyes be.ingblack, andrud-dyhis _ face—And themarge of hishairlike morn-ing —_ /| # cresc. poco a poco frost@—_ Its the ci - derma - kerAnd ap-pletree— /=7 BEF PF. cocoa toco - =: = Simile be ness, His mill, and and vat, 23 XIV NosTHE SIGH ies THOMAS HARDY GERALD FINZI Moderato ¢~c.72 Voice Piano - der, Shy at first, then some what bold - er, And up eyed; x Till she, with atim- id quav-er, Yield - ed tothe kiss I gave her, — 24poco rit. atempo ers But, she sighed.” That there mingledwithher feel-ing Some atempo ————— dim. poco ri aed —— ——_—, sad thought she was con-ceal-ing It im-plied. —Not that she had qo —— ceased to love me,None onearth she set _a-bove me; Tit.atempo She could not disguise a _ passion, Dread, or doubt, tempo plegato oT weak-est fashion If she tried: No- thing seemed tohold us sun-dered, Poco rit atempo ——_. Hearts were vic-tors; so I won-dered Why she sighed.- = wards | knewher throughly, Andshe loved mestaunchly, tru-ly, Till shedied; But_she nev-er See~sionWhy, at that_first__sweet_con-ces - sion, a7 gC OU a tempatranquillo It was in our May, _re-mem-ber} atempo =—— oe tranquil er aml Andthoughnow Inear No-vem-ber_And a-bide Till_my appointedchange, un- Fy OS | rr ——— pocorit. —— focenl a a -fret-ting,- Sometimes _Isithalf regretting Thatshe sighed. eS — 7 ————_ pocorit. —_— & 27 XIV No.7FORMER BEAUTIES et THOMAS HARDY GERALD FINZI Pensieroso quasi Recitativo /-es8 Voice These mar- ket dames, mid- Piano p sostenuto with lips thin - drawn,And tis- sues sere, Are they theones we loved in years a ~ gone, poco cresc.- 28cour ~ ted here? Are these the mus-lined pink young sostenuto things towhom We vowed and swore In nooks on sum-mer Sun-days, ad a mp \cantabile = rit dead of precedion by the Froom, Or Bud-mouth shore? rit. Leggiero — a Do they re- mem - ber those Clasped 29on the greens trod till f ——~ Theymust forget, for~ (en 30ey can-not_know What once they wert;—~ tr F pid animando = o-ry would trans-fig - ure them, iP pid animan crit aay, rit. a tempo 4..d Them al-ways fair, a a tempo J.-J 3 XIV No.8TRANSFORMATIONS THOMAS HARDY Ea GERALD FINZI Con moto grand-sire knew, Bosomed here at its 32This branch. may be his wife, ‘A rud-dy_hu-man life dy_hu-man lif = =— ae a peeeeeeneeee turned to a green shoot. > sonore 2 EE EEL > WS must be made Of her who of - ten SS - pochiss: meng poco rit. for. Last cen-thr-¥, = poses PF pdolce pochiss poco rit..e-dim. - As 3 ee aoa ‘And the fair girl long @ - go of-ten tried to know May be ter-ing this rose. CI cantabile a tempol atempolnot un-der- ground, But as nerves —____ and veins —— poco a_poco_ pitt -bound Inthe growths of — up-per airy And they feel the sun and oper ___aree ee EE pg a poco pid animato,cresc. Allargando ‘And the en-er-gy a-gain_____ That animato, crese. , Allgrgando made them what they were! 35 XIV No.9THE DANCE CONTINUED (REGRET NOT ME’) THOMAS HARDY es GERALD FINZI Andante con moto 4-<. 2 Voice ae = Re-gret not me; Be- neath the sun-ny tree I lie un- Piano PP sostenuto 1. nf _—— Pp Swift as the light flew my fae-ry flight; Ec-static-ally 1 moved, and feared no 36did not know That hey-days fade and go, poco animando ——— deemed that what was would be al-ways so. I skipped at morn <-> Be-tween the yel-low-ing corn, w ’ink-ing it good and __§_ S5 — dim. —.z™ = Fasano —__atempo glo rious to be born. I ran at eves tempo CLE? fies 37=mong the piled there - fore Now soon will come the ap-ple,pear, and plum, And hinds will sin, and autumn in-sects hum. a nf. A-gain you will fare To ci-dersmakings rare, And junk-et -ings;_ crescendo: 38PTS _allargando but 1 shall not be there. allargando P aemaees atempo dood Zs FF yb gi; ily —__Un-til~— thes pew - tering a tempo. > 3 Those songs I O£ sip - sy-ing. ‘And light- ly dance ___ Some —S= ST r 7 rr oP(senza rit) r +—1— bre z = ——— ee OU “‘ri-ple — timed ance — cou- pled fig-ures, and for - ——— : 3a a a slum - bering peace - ful-ly. IV No.9