Hymn to Diana (Arnold Duncan Culley)

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• (Posted 2023-10-08)  CPDL #76151:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-08).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 528 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Hymn to Diana
Composer: Arnold Duncan Culley
Lyricist: Ben Jonson
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB, minor A divisi
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1889 Novello, Ewer, and Co.
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English text

Queen and huntress, chaste and fair,
Now the sun is laid to sleep,
Seated in thy silver chair,
State in wonted manner keep:
Hesperus entreats thy light,
Goddess excellently bright.

Earth, let not thy envious shade
Dare itself to interpose;
Cynthia’s shining orb was made
Heaven to clear, when day did close:
Bless us then with wished sight,
Goddess excellently bright!

Lay thy bow of pearl apart,
And thy crystal-shining quiver;
Give unto the flying hart
Space to breathe how short so-ever:
Thou that makest a day of night,
Goddess excellently bright!