Roslin Castle (Henry A. Lambeth)

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• (Posted 2023-11-08)  CPDL #77083:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-11-08).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 476 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Roslin Castle
Composer: Henry A. Lambeth
Lyricist: Richard Hewitt
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1887 Paterson & Sons
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Original text and translations

English text

’Twas in the season of the year,
When all things gay and sweet appear,
That Colin, with the morning ray,
Arose and sang his rural lay.
Of Nanny’s charms the Shepherd sung,
The hills and dales with Nanny rung:
While Roslin Castle heard the swain,
And echo’d back the cheerful strain.

Awake, sweet Muse! the breathing spring
With raptures warm; awake and sing!
Awake, and join the vocal throng
Who hail the morning with a song:
To Nanny raise the cheerful lay,
O, bid her haste and come away!
In sweetest smiles herself adorn,
And add new graces to the morn!

O hark, my love! on every spray,
Each feather’d warbler tunes his lay;
’Tis beauty fires the ravish’d throng:
And love inspires the melting song.
Then let my raptur’d notes arise,
For beauty darts from Nanny’s eyes,
And love my rising bosom warms,
And fills my soul with sweet alarms.

O come, my love! thy Colin’s lay
With rapture calls, O come away!
Come, while this Muse this wreath shall twine
Around that modest brow of thine;
O! hither hasten and with thee bring
That beauty blooming like the spring,
Those graces that divinely shine,
And charm this ravish’d breast of mine.