Gentle winds, around her hover (John Thomas Musgrave)

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• (Posted 2023-11-21)  CPDL #77471:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-11-21).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 614 kB   Copyright: Personal

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• (Posted 2020-05-12)  CPDL #58542:         

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2020-05-12).   Score information: A4, 6 pages, 107 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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General Information

Title: Gentle winds, around her hover
Composer: John Thomas Musgrave
Lyricist: Joseph Edwards Carpenter

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: a cappella or Keyboard

First published: 1884 in Novello's Part-Song Book (2nd series), Vol. 17, no. 469
Description: Dedicated to the members of the Kensington Orchestral and Choral Society.

Original text and translations

English text

Gentle winds, around her hover,
Seek the bower where she sleeps,
Whisper, zephyrs, how I love her,
Though my lip still silent keeps;
Tell her that my peace is flown,
Say my heart is all her own;
Mingle, zephyrs, with her sigh,
Bid her let me hope or die.
R: Gentle winds, around her hover,
Seek the bower where she sleeps,
Whisper, zephyrs, how I love her,
Though my lip still silent keeps.

Gentle moon that shin'st above her
In yon dark blue vault afar,
Whisper softly how I love her,
Say she is my guiding star;
Let thy pure and holy beams
Fall upon her while she dreams;
Murmur, moonbeam, how I sigh,
But for her I live or die.
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