The Fairy Queene (Alexandra Thomson)

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• (Posted 2023-12-13)  CPDL #78180:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-12-13).   Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 714 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: The Fairy Queene
Composer: Alexandra Thomson
Lyricist: Anonymous
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong, Madrigal

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1896 Novello, Ewer, and Co.
Description: Madrigals, Opus 12, No. 1

Original text and translations

English text

Come, follow, follow me,
You fairy elves that be;
Which circle on the greene,
Come, follow Mab your Queene.
Hand in hand let’s dance arounde,
For this place is fairy grounde.

When mortals are at rest
And snoring in their nest,
Unheard and unespyed,
Throough keyholes we do glide,
Over tables, stools, and shelves
We trip it with our fairy elves.

Upon a mushroome’s head
Our tablecloth we spread,
A grain of rye or wheat
Is manchet which we eat;
Pearly drops of dew we drink
In acorn cups filled to the brink.

On tops of dewie grasse,
So nimbly do we passe,
The young and tender stalk
Ne’er bends when we do walk,
Yet in the morning may be seen
Where we the night before have been.

16th century