Flow on, silver stream (John Danby)

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• (Posted 2022-02-07)  CPDL #67949: 

Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2022-02-07).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 57 kB   Copyright: CC BY SA

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General Information

Title: Flow on, silver stream
Composer: John Danby
Lyricist: Samuel Marsh Oram^{create page}
Number of voices: 3vv   Voicing: SSB
Genre: Secular, Glee

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1796
Description: A setting of Oram's To the [Devonshire] River Stour.

Original text and translations

English text

Flow on, silver stream, trilling soft on thy bed,
Enriching the sweetly diversified scene.
Where Flora empurples with flow'rs the gay mead,
And flocks round thy margin disporting are seen.

The beauties of nature and art deck thy source,
While music, sweet music, ascends from the glade.
No rocks e'er impede thy meandering course,
Or sully the maze that thy waters have made.