Breathe soft, ye winds
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General information
Lyricist: Ambrose Philips, from the Sixth Pastoral (1709)
Settings by composers
- John Baptiste Calkin SATB (replaces ‘’vale’’ with ‘’grove’’)
- Maria Hester Park SSB, TTB and SSA
- William Paxton TTB
- Samuel Webbe SATB
Texts and Translations
English text
Breathe soft ye winds, ye waters gently flow;
Shield her ye trees, ye flowers around her grow.
Ye swains, I beg you, pass in silence by;
My love, in yonder vale, asleep doth lie.