Hark! to Philomela singing (William Knyvett)

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• (Posted 2023-11-06)  CPDL #77012:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-11-06).   Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 646 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Hark! to Philomela singing
Composer: William Knyvett
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: Piano

First published: ca. 1840 Rt. Birchall
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Original text and translations

English text

Hark! To Philomela singing,
Sweetly warbling in the vale;
Hark! the village bells are ringing,
Softly murm’ring on the gale.

By that stream, so gently flowing,
Stands our poor, though happy, shed;
Winds that ever kindly blowing,
O’er its unprotected head.

There in tranquil ease and pleasure,
Each revolving year we dwell;
Blest with every heart-felt treasure,
In our poor and humble cell.