1904
Autumn Song (op. 56, no. 1)
Composed by 
Amy Marcy Beach
Amy Marcy Beach Text by Henry Harris Aubrey Beach
"Autumn Song" is the first song of Beach's Four Songs, op. 56, which sets the poetry of her husband, as well as Florence Earle Coates and Scottish poet William Black.
Text
Autumn Song
by Henry Harris Aubrey Beach
Happy days and summer roses
Vanish one by one;
Ev’ry rose her petals loses,
Ev’ry day its sun.
Now the goldenrod is swinging
Radiant in the air,
The wild grape still is clinging
High inpurple rare.
Ah!
Happy days and joyous roses,
Come again in Spring;
Winter then in sleep reposes
And to thee I’ll sing,
To thee I’ll sing!
Sheet Music
Four Songs, Op. 56 (high voice)
Amy Beach
Autumn Song (op. 56, no. 1)
Go Not Too Far (op. 56, no. 2)
I Know Not How to Find the Spring (op. 56, no. 3)
Go Not Too Far (op. 56, no. 2)
I Know Not How to Find the Spring (op. 56, no. 3)
High
Four Songs, Op. 56 (low voice)
Amy Beach
Autumn Song (op. 56, no. 1)
Go Not Too Far (op. 56, no. 2)
I Know Not How to Find the Spring (op. 56, no. 3)
Go Not Too Far (op. 56, no. 2)
I Know Not How to Find the Spring (op. 56, no. 3)
Low