Ah! Hills beloved (John Wall Callcott)

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• (Posted 2021-02-08)  CPDL #62759: 

Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2021-02-08).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 253 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Ah! Hills beloved
Composer: John Wall Callcott
Lyricist: Charlotte Turner Smith

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: ATTBB
Genre: Secular, Glee

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1790
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Original text and translations

English text

SONNET V. To the South Downs.
Ah! hills beloved, where once, an happy child,
Your beechen shades, your turf, your flowers among,
I wove your blue-bells into garlands wild,
And woke your echoes with my artless song.
Ah! hills beloved,your turf, your flowers remain;
But can they peace to this sad breast restore,
For one poor moment soothe the sense of pain,
And teach a breaking heart to throb no more?