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'''Title:''' ''O wild west wind, Op. 53, No. 3''<br>
'''Title:''' ''O wild west wind, Op. 53, No. 3''<br>
{{Composer|Edward Elgar}}
{{Composer|Edward Elgar}}
{{Lyricist|Percy Bysshe Shelley| (1792-1822), from ''Ode to the West Wind''}}


'''Number of voices:''' 4vv '''Voicing:''' SATB div.<br>
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'''Genre:''' {{pcat|Secular| music}}, [[:Category:Madrigals|Madrigal]]<br>
{{Genre|Secular|Madrigals}}
{{Language|English}}
{{Language|English}}
'''Instruments:''' {{acap}}<br>
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General Information

Title: O wild west wind, Op. 53, No. 3
Composer: Edward Elgar
Lyricist: Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), from Ode to the West Wind

Number of voices: 8vv   Voicing: SSAATTBB

Genre: SecularMadrigal

Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published:

Description: Completed Rome, December, 1907

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Original text and translations

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O wild West Wind, make me thy lyre, even as the forest is:
What if my leaves are falling like its own!
The tumult of thy mighty harmonies

Will take from both a deep, autumnal tone,
Sweet though in sadness. Be thou, Spirit fierce,
My spirit! Be thou me, impetuous one!

Drive my dead thoughts over the universe
Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth!
And, by the incantation of this verse,

Scatter, as from an unextinguished hearth
Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind!
Be through my lips to unawakened earth

The trumpet of a prophecy! O, Wind,
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?