Ye nymphs and sylvan gods (Samuel Arnold)
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- (Posted 2023-08-14) CPDL #74868:
- Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2023-08-14). Score information: A4, 3 pages, 169 kB Copyright: CC BY SA
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General Information
Title: Ye nymphs and sylvan gods
Composer: Samuel Arnold
Lyricist: George Colman
Number of voices: 1v Voicing: solo high
Genre: Secular, Aria
Language: English
Instruments: Basso continuo
First published: 1789
Description: From "The Enraged Musician, a musical entertainment founded on Hogarth, performed at the Theatre Royal in the Haymarket, 1789. Sung by Miss George".
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Original text and translations
English text
Ye nymphs and sylvan gods
That love green fields and woods,
When spring newly-born,
Loves herself to adorn
With flow'rs and blooming buds,
In cheerful lays sing in the praise,
Amidst the pleasant vale
of those that choose their sleep to lose,
And in the cold dews with clouted shoes
Still carry the milking pail.
When cold bleak winds do roar
And flowers spring no more,
The fields, lately seen
So pleasant and green,
By winter all candied o'er.
Oh! how the town lass looks,
With her white face and her lips of deadly pale;
But it is not so with those that go
Thro' frost and snow, with cheeks that glow,
To carry the milking pail.