Pack, Clouds, Away (Grace Wilbur Conant)
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- Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-05). Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 700 kB Copyright: Personal
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Title: Pack, Clouds, Away
Composer: Grace Wilbur Conant
Lyricist: Thomas Heywood
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1903 Oliver Ditson Co.
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Original text and translations
English text
Pack, clouds, away, and welcome, day,
With night we banish sorrow;
Sweet air, blow soft; mount, lark, aloft,
To give my Love good-morrow!
Wings from the wind to please her mind,
Notes from the lark I’ll borrow:
Bird, prune thy wing! nightingale, sing!
To give my Love good morrow!
To give my Love good morrow
Notes from them all I’ll borrow.
Wake from thy nest, robin redbreast,
Sing, birds, in every furrow;
And from each bill let music shrill
Give my fair Love good-morrow!
Blackbird and thrush in every bush,
Stare, linnet, and cock-sparrow,
You pretty Elves, among yourselves,
Sing my fair Love good morrow!
To give my Love good-morrow!
Sing, birds, in every furrow!