Thou soft flowing Avon

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Song TitleThou soft flowing Avon (Search)
Composer(s):Thomas Augustine Arne
Author(s):David Garrick
Keyword(s) & Features: Addressee: River Avon; Admiration; Avon; Beds; Celebrations; Dancing; Danger; Descriptions; Dreaming; Fairies; Flowing; Green; Hallowed; Heads; Love; Maidens; Metaphor: Nature as Muse; Moonlight; Mortal; Nature; Ode; Pain; Pillowing; Reverence; Rivers; Roving; Shakespeare, William; Sighing; Silver; Soft; Streams; Swains; Turf
First LineThou soft flowing Avon (Search)
Link to English Text Onlinehttps://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=5917
Musical FormStrophic (Search)
Original LanguageEnglish (Search)
Audio Source https://open.spotify.com/track/6iDx5KLk4vwpaUVPRGwW6d?si=j6GS18bGTgejOU2DdJfysg
Voice part suggested by composerMezzo-soprano
Range: C#4 - F#5 (Search)
Original KeyD Major (Search)
NotesPoet buried in Poet's Corner in Westminster Abbey (Search)
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