Hush to peace each ruder wind (Thomas Arne)
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- Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2021-11-08). Score information: A4, 2 pages, 113 kB Copyright: CC BY SA
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Title: Hush to peace each ruder wind
Composer: Thomas Arne
Lyricist: Anonymous
Number of voices: 3vv Voicing: TTB
Genre: Secular, Glee
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1762
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Original text and translations
English text
On Chloe sleeping
Hush to peace each ruder wind!
Purling rills, in silence roll,
While, on rosy bed reclined,
Sleeps the charmer of my soul.
Chaste Diana, watch my treasure,
Guard her beauty from alarms.
Let no satyr's brutal pleasure
Dare invade her blooming charms.
Somnus, god of balmy rest,
Sweetly slumb'ring let her prove
Ev'ry joy, which Strephon blessed
Could bestow in waking love.