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

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• CPDL #10776:      (Finale 2000) (Finale 2006)

Editor: Sabine Cassola (submitted 2006-01-15).   Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 73 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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Title: Next winter comes slowly
Composer: Henry Purcell

Number of voices: 1v   Voicing: Bass solo

Genre: Secular, Aria

Language: English
Instruments: Recorders for SAT trio and bass continuo accompaniment
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Description: From Purcell's opera - The Fairy Queen, Act IV.

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English text

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.