Good Morrow (John Hullah)

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• (Posted 2023-10-31)  CPDL #76843:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-31).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 408 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Good Morrow
Composer: John Hullah
Lyricist: Thomas Heywood
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1867 Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer
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Original text and translations

English text

Pack, clouds, away, and welcome, day,
With night we banish sorrow;
Sweet air, blow soft; mount, lark, aloft,
To give my Love good-morrow!
Wings from the wind to please her mind,
Notes from the lark I’ll borrow:
Bird, prune thy wing! nightingale, sing!
To bid my Love good morrow!

Wake from thy nest, robin redbreast,
Sing, birds, in every furrow;
And from each bill let music shrill
Bid my fair Love good-morrow!
Blackbird and thrush in every bush,
Stare, linnet, and cock-sparrow,
You pretty Elves, among yourselves,
Sing my fair Love good morrow!