Mark the merry elves (John Wall Callcott)
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- Editor: Jonathan Goodliffe (submitted 2008-07-26). Score information: A4, 8 pages, 71 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: MusicXML source file(s) in compressed .mxl format.
General Information
Title: Mark the merry elves
Composer: John Wall Callcott
Lyricist: William Lisle Bowles
Number of voices: 3vv Voicing: SSB
Genre: Secular, Glee
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella (originally). Piano accompaniment added by William Horsley (1774-1858).
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Description: A 3 part glee
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Original text and translations
English text
From poem "On Shakespeare"
by William Lisle Bowles (1762-1850), 5th stanza
Mark the merry elves of fairy land!
In the cold moon's gleamy glance,
They with shadowy morris dance,
Soft music dies along the desert land,
Soon at peep of cool eyed day,
Soon the numerous lights decay.
Merrily now, merrily, merrily now,
After the dewy moon they fly.