Serenade To Music (Remastered 2023)歌词-Sir Henry Wood&BBC Symphony Orchestra

Serenade To Music (Remastered 2023)歌词由Sir Henry Wood&BBC Symphony Orchestra演唱，出自专辑《Vaughan Williams: Serenade to Music - Exploring the Sixteen Singers Chosen for the First Performance (Remastered 2023)》，下面是《Serenade To Music (Remastered 2023)》完整版歌词！

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All sixteen soloists: How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank!

Here will we sit and let the sounds of music

Creep in our ears: soft stillness and the night

Become the touches of sweet harmony.

Isobel Baillie: Of sweet harmony.

Heddle Nash: Look how the floor of heaven

Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold;

Frank Titterton: There’s not the smallest orb that thou beholds’t,

But in his motion like an angel sings,

Walter Widdop: Still quiring to the young-ey’d cherubins;

All sixteen soloists: Such harmony is in immortal souls;

Parry Jones: But, whilst this muddy vesture of decay

Doth grossly close it in,

All sixteen soloists: We cannot hear it.

Stiles-Allen Come, ho! and wake Diana with a hymn:

With sweetest touches pierce your mistress’ ear,

And draw her home with music.

All sixteen soloists: And draw her home with music.

Elsie Suddaby: I am never merry when I hear sweet music.

Robert Easton: The reason is, your spirits are attentive:

Harold Williams: The man that hath no music in himself,

Roy Henderson: Or is not mov’d with concord of sweet sounds,

Robert Easton: Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils;

Norman Allin: The motions of his spirit are dull as night,

And his affections dark as Erebus;

All sixteen soloists: Let no such man be trusted.

Muriel Brunskill: Music! Hark! It is your music of the house.

Astra Desmond: Methinks it sounds much sweeter than by day.

Mary Jarred: Silence bestows that virtue on it.

Eva Turner: How many things by season seasoned are.

To their right praise and true perfection!

Margaret Balfour: Peace, ho! The moon sleeps with Endymion,

And would not be awak’d!

All sixteen soloists: Soft stillness and the night

Become the touches of sweet harmony.

Isobel Baillie: Of sweet harmony,

All: Sweet harmony.

William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice (Act V, Scene 1)