Sleep soft, fair form (John Wall Callcott)

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• (Posted 2021-02-08)  CPDL #62761: 

Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2021-02-08).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 144 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Sleep soft, fair form
Composer: John Wall Callcott
Lyricist: Anon

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SATTB
Genre: Secular, Glee

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1790
Description: "Compos'd at the request of W.B. [William Benson] Earle, esq., Salisbury." The text is a popular unattributed epitaph.

Original text and translations

English text

Sleep soft, fair form, await th'Almighty's will;
Then rise unchanged, and be an angel still.