Thou soft flowing Avon (Garrick, set by T. Arne) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


Thou soft flowing Avon, by the silver stream,
Of things more than mortal thy Shakespeare would dream.
The fairies by moonlight dance round the green bed
For hallow'd the turf is which pillow'd his head.

The love-stricken maiden, the sighing young swain,
They rove without danger, and sigh without pain.
The fairies by moonlight dance round the green bed
For hallow'd the turf is which pillow'd his head.

Authorship

David Garrick (1717-1779)

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

Thomas Augustine Arne (1710-1778)

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