The nightingale (Lord Mornington)
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- (Posted 2011-12-05) CPDL #25098:
- Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2011-12-05). Score information: A4, 2 pages, 79 kB Copyright: Personal
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General Information
Title: The nightingale
Composer: Lord Mornington
Lyricist: Anonymous
Number of voices: 3vv Voicing: TTB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published:
Description: Garret Wesley, 1st Earl of Mornington (in the Irish peerage) was the first Professor of Music at Trinity College, Dublin, and a prolific writer of glees.
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Original text and translations
English text
Sweet bird, that charm'st the hour of eve,
Still mindful of the ancient wrong,
While list'ning fairies learn to grieve
And pay with tears thy plaintive song;
What echo sweet these shades along
Shall kindly bear thy descant strain,
Where Laura, while its sounds convey
Soft pity for thy tender pain,
Ah, envied bird, shall bless thy lay.
"Sing on, sweet bird", the maid shall say,
"Cease, cruel maid", the fays return,
Nor strains of grief despise,
Echo a sadder tale shall learn,
Thy poet loves, and weeps, and dies.