Pack, Clouds Away (Claude Ernest Cover)

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• (Posted 2023-10-06)  CPDL #76090:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-06).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 488 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Pack, Clouds Away
Composer: Claude Ernest Cover
Lyricist: Thomas Heywood
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: ca. 1895 William Reeves
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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 both 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, amongst yourselves,
    Sing my fair Love good morrow!
    To give my Love good-morrow!
    Sing, birds, in every furrow!