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{{Voicing|3|SSB}}<br>
{{Voicing|3|SSB}}<br>
{{Genre|Secular|Partsongs}}
{{Genre|Secular|Glees}}
{{Language|English}}
{{Language|English}}
'''Instruments:''' {{acap}} originally, {{PnoAcc|piano accompaniment}} added by [[William Horsley]]<br>
'''Instruments:''' {{acap}} originally, {{PnoAcc|piano accompaniment}} added by [[William Horsley]]<br>
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'''Description:''' A 3 part glee to a text by Sir Walter Scott.
'''Description:''' A 3 part glee to a text by Sir Walter Scott.


'''External websites:'''  
'''External websites:'''


==Original text and translations==
==Original text and translations==

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Editor: Jonathan Goodliffe (submitted 2004-08-09).   Score information: A4, 8 pages, 84 kB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: Glee for three voices, accompaniment added by William Horsley

General Information

Title: Melrose
Composer: John Wall Callcott
Lyricist: Walter Scott

Number of voices: 3vv   Voicing: SSB

Genre: SecularGlee

Language: English
Instruments: a cappella originally, piano accompaniment added by William Horsley
Published: Not known

Description: A 3 part glee to a text by Sir Walter Scott.

External websites:

Original text and translations

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From "Lay of the last Minstrel: the Ride to Melrose", Canto II, stanza I

If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright,
Go visit it by the pale moonlight;
For the gay beams of lightsome day
Gild, but to flout, the ruins gray.
When the broken arches are black in night,
And each shafted oriel glimmers white;
When the cold light's uncertain shower
Streams on the ruined central tower;
[When buttress and buttress, alternately,
Seem framed of ebon and ivory;]
When silver edges the imagery,
And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die;
When distant Tweed is heard to rave,
And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave,
Then go--but go alone the while--
Then view St. David's ruin'd pile;
And, home returning, soothly swear,
Was never scene so sad and fair!

Note: lines in brackets not part of the musical setting.