Now in her green mantle (William Knyvett)
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- (Posted 2024-03-30) CPDL #79801:
- Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2024-03-30). Score information: A4, 6 pages, 103 kB Copyright: CC BY SA
- Edition notes: Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score. Please click on the link for preview/playback/PDF download.
General Information
Title: Now in her green mantle
Composer: William Knyvett
Lyricist: Robert Burns
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Glee
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: ?1812 (n/d)
Description: A setting of Robert Burns arranged as a concert glee.
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Original text and translations
English text
Now in her green mantle blithe nature arrays,
And listens the lambkins that bleat o'er the braes,
While birds warble welcomes in ilka green shaw,
But to me it's the delightless, my Nansie's awa.
The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn,
And violets bathe in the weet o' the morn.
They pain my sad bosom, sae sweetly they blaw:
They mind me o' Nansie, and Nansie's awa.
Thou lav'rock, that springs frae the dews of the lawn
The shepherd to warn o' the grey-breaking dawn,
And thou mellow mavis, that hails the night-fa,
Give over for pity, my Nansie's awa.