The Landskip (James Oswald)
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- (Posted 2024-09-15) CPDL #81964:
- Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2024-09-15). Score information: A4, 1 page, 66 kB Copyright: CC BY SA
- Edition notes: Please click on the link for preview/playback/PDF download.
General Information
Title: The Landskip
Composer: James Oswald
Lyricist: William Shenstone
Number of voices: 1v Voicing: solo high
Genre: Secular, Aria
Language: English
Instruments: Basso continuo
First published: 1760
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Original text and translations
English text
How pleased within my native bowers
Erewhile I passed the day;
Was ever scene so decked with flowers,
Were ever flowers so gay?
How sweetly smiled the hill, the vale
And all the landskip round;
The river gliding down the dale,
The hill with beeches crowned.
But now, when urged by tender woes,
I speed to meet my dear,
That hill and stream my zeal oppose,
And check my fond career;
No more, since Daphne was my theme,
Their wonted charms I see;
That verdant hill and silver stream
Divide my love and me.