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by John Dryden (1631 - 1700) and by Robert Howard, Sir (1626 - 1698)

Let us wander
Language: English 
Our translations:  GER
Let us wander not unseen,
by the elms on hillocks green,
while the ploughman near at hand
whistles o'er the furrow'd land.
And the milk maid singeth blithe
and the mower whets his scythe.

Let us wander not unseen,
by the elms on hillocks green,
while the ploughman near at hand
whistles o'er the furrow'd land.
And the shepherd tells his tale,
beneath the hawthorn in the dale.

Let us wander not unseen,
by the elms on hillocks green,
while the ploughman near at hand
whistles o'er the furrow'd land.

Text Authorship:

  • by John Dryden (1631 - 1700) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
  • by Robert Howard, Sir (1626 - 1698) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by Henry Purcell (1658/9 - 1695), "Let us wander", Z. 630 (1695), from the incidental music to The Indian Queen [sung text not yet checked]

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

  • GER German (Deutsch) (Beate Binnig) , "Lass uns vorbeiwandern", copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this page: Baxter Kennedy

This text was added to the website: 2003-11-15
Line count: 16
Word count: 90

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