Blow, blow thou winter wind (Richard John Samuel Stevens)

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Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2008-03-29).   Score information: A4, 8 pages   Copyright: Personal
Edition notes: Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score. Please click on the link for preview/playback and PDF download.

General Information

Title: Blow, blow thou winter wind
Composer: Richard John Samuel Stevens
Lyricist: William Shakespeare , As you like it, Act II Scene VII

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published: c.1793

Description: From Eight Glees expressly composed for ladies, Op. 4

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Original text and translations

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Blow, blow, thou winter wind,
Thou art not so unkind,
as Man’s ingratitude
Thy tooth is not so keen,
because thou art not seen,
although thy breath be rude.

Heigh ho, sing heigh ho,
unto the greene holly,
Most friendship is feigning;
most loving, meere folly:
Then heigh ho, the holly,
This Life is most jolly.

Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky
that dost not bight so nigh
as benefits forgot:
Though thou the waters warp,
thy sting is not so sharp,
as friend remember’d not.