Now The Leaves Are Falling Down | An Autumn Song | 1901 Smith

🍂[Lyrics below] This beutiful song was published in 1901: 60 in "A first book in vocal music : wherein the study of musical structure is pursued through the consideration of complete melodic forms and practice based on exercises related to them" by Eleanor Smith (https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?i.... The notes says the source for this song is "Songs for Kindergarten and Primary Schools" by Oliver Ditson & Co.

I found that the words are by J. Gertrude Menard, and the music by Belle Menard. "Songs for Kindergarten and Primary Schools" by J. Gertrude Menard was published in 1888 (https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?i....

The painting is from 1904, by Maximilian Lenz (1860–1948), called "Herbstgold" - Autumn gold.

Here are the words:

Now the leaves are falling down,
One and all, one and all
Changed from red and gold to brown
In the fall, in the fall.
Ev'ryone their story knows,
That the wind is cold that blows,
That they wait the winter snows,
As a pall*, as a pall.

Gone the bloom from field and wold,**
Silently, silently
Closer creeps the lonely fold
On the lea***, on the lea
In the tree tops hangs the nest
Gray clouds gather in the west,
E'en the cricket is at rest,
Quietly, quietly.

Repeat first verse.

*pall: a cover; a cloth spread over a coffin, hearse, or tomb.
:or a cover of dark cloud of smoke, dust, etc.

**wold: (in Britain) a piece of high, open uncultivated land or moor.
***lea: an open area of grassy or arable land.


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