Awake mine eyes (William Byrd)
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General Information
Title: Awake mine eyes
Composer: William Byrd
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SSAB
Genre: Secular, Madrigals
Language: English
Instruments: none, a cappella
Published: Psalmes, Songs & Sonnets (1611), no. 12
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Original text and translations
Original text:
English text
Awake mine eyes, see Phoebus bright arising,
And lesser lights to shades obscure descending,
Glad Philomela sits tunes of joy devising,
Whilst in sweet notes, from warbling throats
The Silvan Choir with like desire,
To her are echoes sending.
