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’’)
Maria Hester Park SSB, TTB and SSA
William Paxton TTB
Samuel Webbe SATB

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.