What can lambkins do (Samuel Coleridge-Taylor)
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- Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2021-11-22). Score information: A4, 8 pages, 217 kB Copyright: CPDL
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Title: What can lambkins do?
Composer: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Lyricist: Christina Rossetti
Number of voices: 3vv Voicing: SSA
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: Piano
First published: 1908 Novello's Octavo edition of Trios etc. for Female Voices
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Original text and translations
English text
What can lambkins do
All the keen night through?
Nestle by their woolly mother,
The careful ewe.
What can nestlings do
In the nightly dew?
Sleep beneath their mother's wing,
Till dawn breaks anew.
If in field or tree,
There might only be
Such a warm soft sleeping place
Found for me.