Sing on, sweet Birds! (Edward Bunnett)

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• (Posted 2023-09-28)  CPDL #75833:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-09-28).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 540 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Sing on, sweet Birds!
Composer: Edward Bunnett
Lyricist: Edward Oxenford
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1897 Novello, Ewer, and Co.
Description: Six Pastoral Part-songs, No.3

Original text and translations

English text

Sing on, sweet birds, your joyous lays
In every bush and tree,
And let the leafy woodland ways
Resound with melody!
The winter now is past and dead,
And dawned has beauteous spring,
So fear not, in your bowers o’erhead.
All blithe of heart to sing.

Sing on, sweet birds, sing on, sing on!
Your minstrelsy we love!
With music fill each vale and hill
From out your bowers above!

Sing on, sweet birds, when breaks the morn,
And rise the sunbeams fair;
When pearly dewdrops deck the thorn,
Like jewels rich and rare!
Until the golden day takes flight
Adown the distant West,
Sing on, and only cease when night
Proclaims the time for rest!