Poor, little, pretty, flutt'ring thing (Thomas Arne)

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Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2021-11-08).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 199 kB   Copyright: CC BY SA
Edition notes: Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score. Please click on the link for preview/playback/PDF download.

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Title: Poor, little, pretty, flutt'ring thing
Composer: Thomas Arne
Lyricist: Matthew Prior
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: ATTB
Genre: SecularGlee

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: c.1775 (n/d)
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Original text and translations

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Poor, little, pretty, flutt'ring thing,
Must we no longer live together?
And dost thou prune thy trembling wing,
To take thy flight thou know'st not whither?
Thy pleasing vein, thy amorous folly,
Are all neglected, all forgot:
And pensive, wav'ring, melancholy,
Thou dread'st and hop'st thou know'st not what.