Hedsor Vale (James Hook)

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• (Posted 2023-10-04)  CPDL #76018: 

Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2023-10-04).   Score information: A4, 7 pages, 1.3 MB   Copyright: CC BY SA

Edition notes: Please click on the link for preview/playback/PDF download. The keyboard part is an editorial condensation of the orchestral parts, and the song may be performed with this accompaniment alone.

General Information

Title: Hedsor Vale
Composer: James Hook
Lyricist: T. C. Rickman^{create page}
Number of voices: 1v   Voicing: solo low
Genre: Secular, Aria

Language: English
Instruments: Orchestra,Keyboard

First published:
Description: Written for performance at Vauxhall; Mr (?William) Darley was the first singer.

Original text and translations

English text

Each fluent bard, replete with wit,
In equal numbers shines,
And sweetly flows some fancied name
To grace his polish'd lines.
He calls the Muses to his aid;
In verse he tells his am'rous tale.
Be thou my muse, my much-lov'd maid,
The fairest flow'r of Hedsor Dale.

I feel the warm, the pleasing fire,
Within my bosom roll,
And purest love, and chaste desire,
Steal softly on my soul:
In vain I would the flame conceal,
And hide those cares my heart assail;
My talk and looks and sighs prevail,
I love the flow'r of Hedsor Dale.

What pity that a nymph so fair
With winning shape and face,
Should be devoted to some clown,
Or rustic's rude embrace!
That form demands a better fate:
Sweet hope, perhaps I can prevail;
I'll try before it is too late,
To cull the flow'r of Hedsor Dale.