Boreas (Geoffrey Molyneux Palmer)

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• (Posted 2023-11-22)  CPDL #77545:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-11-22).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 541 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Boreas
Composer: Geoffrey Molyneux Palmer
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1906 Novello and Co.
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Original text and translations

English text

A glorious wind is blustering,
O come to the hills away!
Where with groaning swing
All the mad firs fling
Abroad their arms to the skurrying sky;
They would follow but they cannot,
Chain’d to the earth for aye!

But we are free to follow
Where that mad wind doth call;
It sings of the seas
When the frail barque flees
Away in fear from the treacherous squall;
When the water and the welkin
Mingle in one dark pall.

Mad wind, sad wind,
No rest for thee, no rest for me!
O bear me on thy cooling wings
To that far bourne where ever lie
Unruffled waters ’neath a perfect sky.