Phoebus (Joseph Barnby)

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• (Posted 2023-09-19)  CPDL #75508:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-09-19).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 590 kB   Copyright: Personal

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• (Posted 2019-05-27)  CPDL #54353:         

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2019-05-27).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 86 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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General Information

Title: Phoebus
Composer: Joseph Barnby
Lyricist: Edwin Ransford

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

Instruments: Keyboard

First published: 1870 in Novello's Part-Song Book (2nd series), Vol. 3, no. 104
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Original text and translations

English text

1  Phoebus shines in splendour o'er us,
Let us through the meadows roam;
Nature's face, so bright before us,
Bids us wander from our home.
Woods and groves are all inviting,
Flow'rets sweet adorn the ground;
Birds, their cheerful songs reciting,
Charm the lovely scene around.
R.  Phoebus shines in splendour o'er us,
Let us through the meadows roam;
Nature's face, so bright before us,
Bids us wander from our home.

2  Fields are perfumed with the sweetness
Rising from the new-mown hay;
Deer, disturbed, bound on with fleetness,
Over hill and dale away.
Trees their giant limbs are spreading,
To afford a cooling shade;
And the scented shrubs are shedding
Sweets throughout the woodland glade.
R.  Phoebus shines in splendour o'er us,
Let us through the meadows roam;
Nature's face, so bright before us,
Bids us wander from our home.