Sweet warbling bird, with dulcet note (Robert Cooke)

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• (Posted 2023-08-14)  CPDL #74844: 

Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2023-08-14).   Score information: A4, 5 pages, 292 kB   Copyright: CC BY SA

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Title: Sweet warbling bird, with dulcet note
Composer: Robert Cooke
Lyricist: Anonymous
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Glee

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1805
Description: 

Original text and translations

English text

Sweet warbling bird, with dulcet note,
To Sappho's breast repair;
There be thy captive woes forgot,
The loves are nested there.

And while thy strains thy tale impart,
Let this their burden be:
The pangs, which rend my master's heart,
Are all for love of thee.

Sweet warbling bird, if purest love
Thy little heart e'er knew,
Or if thy artless pipe e'er strove
Thy feather'd mate to woo,
Ah! then for me thy dulcet note display,
And my fond muse shall ever bless thy lay.