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by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

Silent worship
 (Sung text for setting by G. Händel)
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Language: English 
Our translations:  IRI
Did you not hear My Lady
Go down the garden singing
Blackbird and thrush were silent
To hear the alleys ringing...

Oh saw you not My Lady
Out in the garden there
Shaming the rose and lily
For she is twice as fair.

Though I am nothing to her
Though she must rarely look at me
And though I could never woo her
I love her till I die.

Surely you heard My Lady
Go down the garden singing
Silencing all the songbirds
And setting the alleys ringing...

But surely you see My Lady
Out in the garden there
Rivaling the glittering sunshine
With a glory of golden hair.

Composition:

    Set to music by Georg Friedrich Händel (1685 - 1759) and by Arthur Somervell, Sir (1863 - 1937), "Silent worship", note: this is Somervell's arrangement of Handel's Non lo diro col Labbro

Text Authorship:

  • by Anonymous / Unidentified Author, "Silent Worship"

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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • IRI Irish (Gaelic) [singable] (Gabriel Rosenstock) , "Adhradh ciúin", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this page: Paul Fontenoy

This text was added to the website: 2007-04-29
Line count: 20
Word count: 109

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