In the lonely vale (John Wall Callcott)
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- Editor: Robin Doveton (submitted 2005-10-19). Score information: A4, 8 pages, 280 kB Copyright: CPDL
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Title: In the lonely vale
Composer: John Wall Callcott
Lyricist: Ossian
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Glee
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published:
Description: As in a number of his glees, Callcott calls the 2nd voice Soprano, perhaps meaning a female voice with mezzo-soprano range rather than a counter-tenor.
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Original text and translations
English text
In the lonely vale of streams, abides the narrow Soul.
Years roll on,
Seasons return, but he is still unknown.
In a blast comes cloudy
Death, and lays his gray head low.
His Ghost is folded in the vapor of the fenny field;
Its course is never on hills, nor mossy vales of wind.