My breast I'll set upon a silver stream (John Ward)
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- Editor: Brian Russell (added 2005-08-30). Score information: Letter Copyright: Personal
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Title: My breast I'll set upon a silver stream
Composer: John Ward
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal
Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
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Original text and translations
English text
My breast I'll set upon a silver stream,
and swim unto Elysium's lily fields:
There in Ambrosian trees, I'll write a theme,
Of all the woeful sighs my sorrow yields,
A heavy, sad and swanlike song sing I,
To ease my heart before I die.