Phillis in the new-made hay (Herbert E. Crimp)

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• (Posted 2023-10-06)  CPDL #76120:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-06).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 581 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: Phillis in the new-made hay
Composer: Herbert E. Crimp
Lyricist: Anonymous
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1906 Novello and Co.
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Original text and translations

English text

Phillis in the new-made hay,
Wrapp’d in heavy slumbers lay,
Wasting all the summer day
With melancholy dreaming:
“Phillis, cast those cares away
While June’s bright sun is beaming.”

Fickle Damon, so she thought,
Blue-eyed Daphne’s cottage sought,
And a store of posies brought,
The maiden’s birthday greeting:
“Damon, is thy promise nought?
Are lovers’ vows so fleeting?”

“Light as air is Cupid’s yoke?
Could that face such falsehood cloak?”
Thus in murmurs Phillis spoke,
Her idle dreams revealing;
Faithful Damon, when she woke,
She saw before her kneeling.

From the time of Charles I