Cold winter's ice is fled and gone (Thomas Weelkes)
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- Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2010-01-17). Score information: A4, 4 pages, 96 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Revised files uploaded 24/09/21.
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General Information
Title: Cold winter's ice is fled and gone
Composer: Thomas Weelkes
Number of voices: 5vv Voicing: SATTB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
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Original text and translations
English text
Cold winter's ice is fled and gone,
And summer brags on ev'ry tree.
The redbreast peeps amid the throng
Of wood-born birds that wanton be.
Each one forgets what they have been,
And so doth Phyllis, summer's queen.