O shady vales (Charles Villiers Stanford)
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- Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2024-03-12). Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 521 kB Copyright: Personal
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Title: O shady vales
Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford
Lyricist: Thomas Lodge
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1894 Novello, Ewer, and Co.
Description: Six Elizabethan Pastorals [set 2], Opus 53, No. 5.
(THE SOLITARY SHEPHERD’S SONG)
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Original text and translations
English text
O shady vales, O fair enrichèd meads,
O sacred woods, sweet fields, and rising mountains;
O painted flowers, green herbs, where Flora treads,
Refreshed by wanton winds and wat’ry fountains.
O all you wingèd choristers of wood
That perched aloft, your former pains report,
And straight again recount with pleasant mood
Your presant joys in sweet and seemly sort.
O all you creatures, whosoever thrive
On mother earth, in seas, by air, or fire,
More blest are you than I here under sun:
Love dies in me, whenas he doth revive
In you; I perish under beauty’s ire,
Where after storms, winds, frosts, your life is won!