Blow, blow, thou winter wind (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)

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Editor: John Henry Fowler (added 2008-4-20).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 59 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL
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General Information

Title: Blow, blow thou winter winds
Composer: Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
Lyricist: William Shakespeare , from a song in the play As You Like It, Act II, Scene vii

Number of voices: 1v   Voicing: Tenor solo

Genre: Secular, Art song

Language: English
Instruments: Piano
Published: 1886

Description: English Lyrics Set 2 - No. 4

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Original text and translations

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Blow, blow thou winter wind,
Thou art not so unkind
As man's ingratitude;
Thy tooth is not so keen
[Because]1 thou art not seen,
Although thy breath be rude.


Heigh ho! sing heigh ho!
Unto the green holly:
Most friendship is feigning,
Most loving mere folly:
Then, heigh ho! the holly!
This life is most jolly.


Freeze, freeze thou bitter sky,
Thou dost not bite so nigh
As benefits forgot:
Though thou the waters warp,
Thy sting is not so sharp
As friend remember'd not.


Heigh ho! sing heigh ho!
unto the green holly:
Most friendship is feigning,
most loving mere folly
Then, heigh ho! the holly!
This life is most jolly.

Note: 1 Parry substitutes: "Although"