Phoebus (Joseph Barnby)
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- Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2019-05-27). Score information: A4, 4 pages, 86 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: MusicXML source file(s) in compressed .mxl format.
General Information
Title: Phoebus
Composer: Joseph Barnby
Lyricist: Edwin Ransford
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: Keyboard
First published: 1875 in Novello's Part-Song Book (2nd series), Vol. 3, no. 104
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Original text and translations
English text
1 Phoebus shines in splendour o'er us,
Let us through the meadows roam;
Nature's face, so bright before us,
Bids us wander from our home.
Woods and groves are all inviting,
Flow'rets sweet adorn the ground;
Birds, their cheerful songs reciting,
Charm the lovely scene around.
R. Phoebus shines in splendour o'er us,
Let us through the meadows roam;
Nature's face, so bright before us,
Bids us wander from our home.
2 Fields are perfumed with the sweetness
Rising from the new-mown hay;
Deer, disturbed, bound on with fleetness,
Over hill and dale away.
Trees their giant limbs are spreading,
To afford a cooling shade;
And the scented shrubs are shedding
Sweets throughout the woodland glade.
R. Phoebus shines in splendour o'er us,
Let us through the meadows roam;
Nature's face, so bright before us,
Bids us wander from our home.