Out in the windy west (Charles Villiers Stanford)
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- Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2024-03-07). Score information: Letter, 20 pages, 810 kB Copyright: Personal
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Title: Out in the windy west
Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford
Lyricist: A. C. Benson
Number of voices: 7vv Voicing: SSATTBB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1898 The Macmillan Company
Description: MADRIGALE CON ALCUNE LICENZE
For Queen Victoria
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Original text and translations
English text
Out in the windy West, amid the swelling flood,
Rose the sweet silvern isles, arose and proudly stood.
Green grows the meadow-grass about the pleasant isle;
Grey are the towers, far seen o’er many a woodland mile;
There in the gracious fulness of the latter days
Reigns the great Queen, whose name the Orient Oceans praise.
What merry breezes would not crack their cheeks to laud her?
What gallant captains would not give their lives to guard her?
Throned in the silvern isles, amid the swelling sea,
Reigns the great Queen, whose very name is Victory.
Reign on, Victoria, reign!