Oh thou where'er (thie bones att reste) (John Wall Callcott)

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• CPDL #17015:      (Sibelius 5)

Editor: Jonathan Goodliffe (submitted 2008-05-29).   Score information: A4, 7 pages, 72 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Original spelling of Chatterton's poem has been restored

General Information

Title: Oh thou where'er (thie bones att reste)
Composer: John Wall Callcott
Lyricist: Thomas Chatterton

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: Secular, Glee

Language: Middle English
Instruments: a cappella (originally). Piano accompaniment added by William Horsley.

Published: Not known

Description: A four part glee, possibly to be regarded as part 2 of Callcott's glee Songe to Aelle.

External websites: The full annotated text of Chatterton's poem may be found at the online version of "The History of English Poetry: From the Eleventh to the Seventeenth Century" By Thomas Warton. page 346

Original text and translations

Middle English text

Songe to Aelle

by Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770)

Lines 19 to 24 and 31 to 36


Oh thou, where'er (thie bones att reste)
Thie sprite to haunt delyghteth beste,
Whytherr uppon the bloude embrewedd pleyne,
Orr whare thou kennst fromme farre,
The dysmalle crie of warre,
Orr seeste somme mountayne made of corse of sleyne;

…

Or fierie rounde the mynsster glare;
Lette Brystowe stylle bee made thie care;
Guarde ytte fromme foemenne and consumynge fyre,
lyche Avone streme ensyrke ytt rounde;
Ne lett a flame enharme the grounde,
'Tyll in one flame, all the whole worlde expyres.