Next winter comes slowly, Z 629/36 (Henry Purcell)

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Title: Next winter comes slowly
Composer: Henry Purcell

Number of voices: 1v Voicing: B solo
Genre: Secular, Opera aria
Language: English
Instruments: Recorders for SAT trio and bass continuo accompaniment
Published:


Description: From Purcell's opera - The Fairy Queen.


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Original text and translations

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Next winter comes slowly,
pale, meager and cold,
First trembling with age,
and then, quivering with cold;
benumb'd with hard frosts,
and with snow cover'd o'er,
benumb'd with hard frosts,
and with snow cover'd o'er,
Prays to the sun to restore him,
prays to the sun to restore him
and sings as before.