To the Redbreast (John Baptiste Calkin)
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- Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-01). Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 363 kB Copyright: Personal
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General Information
Title: To the Redbreast
Composer: John Baptiste Calkin
Lyricist: John Keble
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1870 Novello, Ewer, and Co.
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Original text and translations
English text
Unheard in summer’s flaring ray,
Pour forth thy notes, sweet singer,
Wooing the still sweet autumn day;
Bid it a moment linger,
Nor fly
Too soon from Winter’s scowling eye.
The blackbird’s song at eventide,
And hers, who gay ascends,
Filling the heavens far and wide,
Are sweet. But none so blends
As thine,
With calm decay, and peace divine.
From “The Christian Year”
Twenty-first Sunday after Trinity