Fare thee well, thou native vale (John Danby)

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• (Posted 2022-01-17)  CPDL #67606: 

Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2022-01-17).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 240 kB   Copyright: CC BY SA

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Title: Fare thee well, thou native vale
Composer: John Danby
Lyricist: William Wennington^{create page}
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Glee

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1795
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English text

Fare thee well, thou native vale,
Where my happier hours were spent;
Farewell dance and song and tale,
Farewell jest and merriment.

Hours of joy, but ah, how few
Infant scenes too quickly fled;
Vanish'd as the morning dew
From the many-spangl'd mead.

Yet, to trace thy varied charms,
Soft Idea lingers still;
Still my breast in prospect warms
Wavy pine or rattling rill.

Still retards the parting sigh,
Anxious trembling on my tongue;
Still recalling infancy,
Tale and jest and dance and song.