The Owl (Harvey Bartlett Gaul)
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- Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-18). Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 562 kB Copyright: Personal
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General Information
Title: The Owl
Composer: Harvey Bartlett Gaul
Lyricist: Alfred Tennyson
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: Piano
First published: 1906 G. Schirmer
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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.