The Owl (Edouard Silas)

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• (Posted 2023-12-07)  CPDL #77945:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-12-07).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 413 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: The Owl
Composer: Edouard Silas
Lyricist: Alfred Tennyson
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1875 Novello, Ewer, and Co.
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Original text and translations

English text

When cats run home and light is come,
And dew is cold upon the ground,
And the far-off stream is dumb,
And the whirring sail goes round,
And the whirring sail goes round;
Alone and warming his five wits,
The white owl in the belfry sits.

When merry milkmaids click the latch,
And rarely smells the new-mown hay,
And the cock hath sung beneath the thatch
Twice or thrice his roundelay,
Twice or thrice his roundelay;
Alone and warming his five wits,
The white owl in the belfry sits.