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==Original text and translations==
==Original text and translations==
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<poem>
Breathe soft ye winds, ye waters gently flow;
Shield her ye trees, ye flowers around her grow.
 
Ye swains, I beg you, pass in silence by;
My love, in yonder vale, asleep doth lie.
</poem>


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Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2007-11-22).   Score information: A4, 2 pages   Copyright: Personal
Edition notes: Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score. Scorch required to view the score.

General Information

Title: Breathe soft ye winds
Composer: William Paxton
Lyricist: Ambrose Philips

Number of voices: 3vv Voicing: TTB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published: c.1775

Description: From "A Collection of Glees and Catches", London, c.1775 N.B. "Breathe soft ye winds" is often but erroneously attributed to Stephen Paxton, William's brother, also a 'cellist and writer of glees. The source of the confusion arises from the inclusion of six of William's glees in "A collection of glees and catches", the remainder (and sizeable majority) of which is devoted to Stephen's compositions.

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Original text and translations

English.png English text

Breathe soft ye winds, ye waters gently flow;
Shield her ye trees, ye flowers around her grow.

Ye swains, I beg you, pass in silence by;
My love, in yonder vale, asleep doth lie.