Breathe soft, ye winds

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General information

Lyricist: Ambrose Philips, from the Sixth Pastoral (1709)

Settings by composers

John Baptiste Calkin SATB (replaces ‘’vale’’ with ‘’grove’’)
William Paxton TTB

Texts and Translations

English text

Breathe soft ye winds, ye waters gently flow;
Shield her ye trees, ye flowers around her grow.

Ye swains, I beg you, pass in silence by;
My love, in yonder vale, asleep doth lie.