Nymphs of air and ancient sea (Henry Thomas Smart)

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• (Posted 2023-12-08)  CPDL #77974:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-12-08).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 422 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Nymphs of air and ancient sea
Composer: Henry Thomas Smart
Lyricist: Reginald Heber
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1890 D. C. Heath and Company
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Original text and translations

English text

FRAGMENTS OF THE MASQUE OF GWENDOLEN

Nymphs of air and ancient sea,
Such the gifts we bring to thee!
Lo! these plumes of rich device,
Pluck’d from birds of paradise!
Lo! these drops of essence rare,
Shook from wand’ring meteor’s hair!
Nymphs of air and ancient sea,
Such the gifts we bring to thee!

Take these shells, approach them near,
They shall murmur in thine ear
Tunes that lull the slumbering sea
More than mermaid’s harmony!
Take these pearls, no diving-slave
Drags their like from ocean cave,—
Nymphs of air and ancient sea,
Such can only bring to thee.