The honour of May (Thomas Dunhill)

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• (Posted 2021-12-21)  CPDL #67190:         

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2021-12-21).   Score information: A4, 5 pages, 158 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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General Information

Title: The honour of May
Composer: Thomas Dunhill
Lyricist: Thomas Chatterton
Number of voices: 2vv   Voicing: SS
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: Piano

First published: 1937 Th Year Book Press no.418
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Original text and translations

English text

Away to the woodlands, away!
The shepherds are forming a ring
To dance, to the honour of May,
And welcome the pleasures of Spring.

The shepherdess labours a grace
And shines in her Sunday's array,
And bears in the bloom of her face
The charms and the beauties of May.

Away to the woodlands, away!
And join with the amorous train:
'Tis treason to labour today,
Now Bacchus and Cupid must reign.

With garlands of primroses made,
And crowned with the sweet blooming spray,
Through woodland, and meadow, and shade,
We'll dance to the honour of May.