Philomela (Ann Mounsey)
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- Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-09-19). Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 3.08 MB Copyright: Personal
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General Information
Title: Philomela
Composer: Ann Mounsey
Lyricist: William Bartholomew
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1855 Ewer & Co.
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Original text and translations
English text
Philomela sings
Nature’s vesper lay;
On the light Zephyr gale it wings
From earth to heaven, and melts in sighs away.
Artless Minstrel, hail!
Nature’s songster, hail!
Lovely Nightingale!
la, la, la, la, la!
When the lark’s sweet lays
Greet returning light,
Nature sings, her theme is Morning’s praise;
In thine I hear the voice of night.
Melodies like thine,
Not in vain were given,
Sacred thoughts with sacred lays entwine,
And praise ascends in song to heaven.