There sits a bird on yonder tree (Richard Henry Walthew)

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• (Posted 2023-12-15)  CPDL #78244:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-12-15).   Score information: Letter, 9 pages, 591 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: There sits a bird on yonder tree
Composer: Richard Henry Walthew
Lyricist: Richard Harris Barham
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1905 Novello and Co.
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Original text and translations

English text

There sits a bird on yonder tree,
More fond than Cushat Dove;
There sits a bird on yonder tree,
And sings to me of love.

Oh, stoop thee from thine eyrie down
And nestle thee near my heart,
For the moments fly,
And the hour is nigh,
When thou and I must part,
My love!
When thou and I must part.

In yonder covert lurks a Fawn,
the pride of the sylvan scene;
In yonder covert lurks a Fawn,
and I am his only queen;

Oh, bound from thy secret lair,
For the sun is below the west;
No mortal eye
May our meeting spy,
For all are closed in rest,
My love!
Each eye is closed in rest.

Oh, sweet is the breath of morn,
When the sun’s first beams appear;
Oh, sweet is the shepherd’s strain,
on the list’ning ear;
And sweet the soft voice which speaks
The Wanderer’s welcome home;
But sweeter far
By yon pale mild star,
With our true love thus to roam,
My dear!
With our own true love to roam!

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