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by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

Upon a Summer's day
 (Sung text for setting by W. Byrd)
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Language: English 
Upon a Summers day love went to swim,
and cast himselfe into a Sea of teares,
the cloudes cald in their light, and Heaven waxt dim,
and sighes did raise a tempest, causing feares.
The naked boy could not so weld his armes,
but that the waves were maisters of his might,
and threatned him to worke farr greater harmes,
if he devised not to scape by flight.

 ... 

Composition:

    Set to music by William Byrd (1542?3? - 1623), "Upon a Summer's day", published 1589, stanza 1 [ SAT chorus a cappella ], from Songs of sundrie natures, no. 12

Text Authorship:

  • by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

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This text was added to the website: 2010-08-09
Line count: 14
Word count: 122

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