Help me, each harmonious grove (Jonathan Battishill)

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• (Posted 2023-08-14)  CPDL #74862: 

Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2023-08-14).   Score information: A4, 5 pages, 279 kB   Copyright: CC BY SA

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Title: Help me, each harmonious grove
Composer: Jonathan Battishill
Lyricist: Arthur Bradley^{create page}
Number of voices: 3vv   Voicing: TTB
Genre: Secular, Glee

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: c.1775 (n/d)
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English text

Help me, each harmonious grove,
Gently whisper, all ye trees,
Tune each warbling note to love,
And cool each mead with softest breeze;
Ah! breathe fresh odours, ev'ry flower,
All your various paintings shew;
Pleasing verdure grace each bow'r,
Around let ev'ry blessing flow.

Glide, ye limpid brooks, along;
Phoebus, glance thy mildest ray,
Murm'ring floods, repeat my song,
And tell what Colin dares not say.
'Tis Celia comes, whose charming air
Fires with love the rural swains;
Tell, ah! tell the blooming fair
That Colin dies if she disdains.