Fairies' Song

this work features on the High CD - click for details

• Blow blow thou winter wind
• Daisies
• The lusty horn
• Icicles
• Music to hear
• So hallow'd and so gracious is the time
• Take O take those lips away
• This sceptr'd isle

You spotted snakes with double tongue,
Thorny hedgehogs, be not seen;
Newts and blind-worms, do no wrong,
Come not near our fairy queen.

Philomel, with melody
Sing in our sweet lullaby;
Lulla, lulla, lullaby, lulla, lulla, lullaby:
Never harm,
Nor spell nor charm,
Come our lovely lady nigh;
So, good night, with lullaby.

Weaving spiders, come not here;
Hence, you long-legg'd spinners, hence!
Beetles black, approach not near;
Worm nor snail, do no offence.

Philomel, with melody, etc.

• choral - high voices unaccompanied