The Robbers (Horatio W. Parker)

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• (Posted 2023-11-22)  CPDL #77543:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-11-22).   Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 538 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: The Robbers
Composer: Horatio W. Parker
Lyricist: Joanna Baillie
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: Piano

First published: 1901 C. C. Birchard & Co.
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Original text and translations

English text

The chough and crow to roost are gone,
The owl sits on the tree,
The hush’d wind wails with feeble moan,
Like infant charity.
The wild-fire dances on the fen,
The red star sheds its ray;
Uprouse ye then, my merry men!
It is our op’ning day.

Both child and nurse are fast asleep,
And closed is every flower,
And winking tapers faintly peep
High from my lady’s bower;
Bewilder’d hinds with shorten’d ken
Shrink on their murky way;
Uprouse ye then, my merry men!
It is our op’ning day.

Nor board nor garner own we now,
Nor roof nor latchèd door,
Nor kind mate, bound by holy vow
To bless a good man’s store;
Noon lulls us in a gloomy den,
And night is grown our day;
Uprouse ye then, my merry men!
It is our op’ning day.

“The outlaw’s song”, from Orra, Act III, Scene 1