Sweet bird (Philip Hayes)
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- Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2022-03-06). Score information: A4, 2 pages, 149 kB Copyright: CC BY SA
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Title: Sweet bird
Composer: Philip Hayes
Lyricist: Anonymous
Number of voices: 3vv Voicing: TTB
Genre: Secular, Glee
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1786 The Muses' Fancy
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Original text and translations
English text
Sweet bird, that charm'st the hour of eve,
Still mindful of thy ancient wrong,
Whilst list'ning fairies learn to grieve,
And pay with tears thy plaintive song;
What echo sweet these shades along
Shall kindly bear thy distant strain;
Where Laura, while its sounds convey
Soft pity for thy tender pain,
Ah! envied bird, shall bless thy lay.
"Sing on, sweet bird", the maid shall say;
"Cease, cruel maid", the fays return,
Nor strains of nearer grief despise;
Echo a sadder tale shall learn:
Thy poet loves and weeps and dies.