When Daphne died (John Wall Callcott)

Music files

L E G E N D

Disclaimer

How to download

ICON	SOURCE
	Web Page
	File details
	Help

• (Posted 2023-12-11)  CPDL #78062: 

Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2023-12-11).   Score information: A4, 5 pages, 278 kB   Copyright: CC BY SA

Edition notes: Please click on the link for preview/playback/PDF download.

General Information

Title: When Daphne died
Composer: John Wall Callcott
Lyricist: Anon, probably the composer^{create page}
Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SATTB
Genre: Secular, Glee

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1780 Warren's sixteenth collection
Description: 

Original text and translations

English text

When Daphne died the sylvans sighed sore,
And ev'ry Naiad on her oozy bed;
The fauns and fairies their light dance forbore,
Whilst Pan, the flocks and fields forsaking, fled.
Sad Venus wept, sad wept the Graces all,
And Phœbus, with the Muses, mourn'd her fall.
No voice was heard along the dreary plain,
None but the sighing wind and weeping rain.