When cats run home (Herbert Brewer)

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• (Posted 2021-10-19)  CPDL #66280:         

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2021-10-19).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 128 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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General Information

Title: When cats run home
Composer: Herbert Brewer
Lyricist: Alfred Tennyson
Number of voices: 2vv   Voicing: SS
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: Piano

First published: 1927 Novello's Two-Part Songs for Female Voices no.232
Description: Dedicated to the Gloucestershire Federation of Women's Institutes.

Original text and translations

English text

When cats run home and light is come,
And dew is cold upon the ground,
And the far off stream is dumb,
And the whirring sail goes round,
Alone and warming his five wits,
The white owl in the belfry sits.

When merry milkmaids click the latch,
And rarely smells the new-mown hay,
And the cock hath sung beneath the thatch,
twice or thrice his roundelay,
Alone and warming his five wits,
The white owl in the belfry sits.