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Come all ye songsters

Language: English

Come all ye songsters of the sky,
Wake and assemble in this wood;
But no ill-boding bird be nigh,
No, none but the harmless, and the good.


Input by Virginia Knight

Authorship

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) , "Come all ye songsters", Z. 629, from Orpheus Britannicus, Vol. II (1692), from The Fairy Queen, no. 7, an operatic adaptation of Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream.

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