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PART II.

CANTATA "The Three Jovial Huntsmen." Anderton

THE CHOIR.

(With Orchestral Accompaniment)

Violins-HERR MUELLER MR. J. W. GUNNISS

MR. J. W. RENDLE

MR. A. HARRIS MR. W. E. BROCKWAY MR. A. HART

MR. G. D. PETRIE A. WEBBER

J. ALEXANDROFF

Violas--REV. G. W. DE LISLE

MR. S. R. WEBB

Violoncello--MR. J. BOATWRIGHT

Contrabasso-MR. J. WATSON

F. BLIGH

A. H. MACPHERSON

REV. F. G. HUME

ITs of three jovial huntsmen, an' a hunting they did go;
An' they hunted, an' they hollo'd, an' they blew their horns

also.

Look ye there!

An' one said, "Mind yo'r e'en, an' keep yo'r noses reet i'

th' wind,

An' then by scent or seet, we'll leet o' summat to our mind." Look ye there!

They hunted, an' they hollo'd, an' the first thing they did find
Was a tatter't boggart, in a field, an' that they left behind.
Look ye there!

One said it was a boggart, an' another he said "Nay;
It's just a ge'man-farmer, that has gone an' lost his way."
Look ye there!

They hunted, an' they hollo'd, an' the next thing they did find
Was a gruntin', grindin' grindlestone, an' that they left behind.
Look ye there!

One said it was a grindlestone, another he said "Nay;
It's nought but an' owd fossil cheese, that somebody's roll't

away."

Look ye there!

They hunted, an' they hollo'd, an' the next thing they did find Was two-three children leaving school, an' these they left behind.

Look ye there!

One said that they were children, but another he said "Nay; They're no' but little angels, so we'll leave 'em to their play." Look ye there!

They hunted, an' they hollo'd, an' the next thing they did find Was two young lovers in a lane, an' these they left behind. Look ye there!

One said that they were lovers, but another he said "Nay; They're two poor wanderin' lunatics-come, let us go away." Look ye there!

So they hunted, and they hollo'd, till the setting of the sun; An' they'd nought to bring away at last, when th' huntin'day was done.

Look ye there!

Then one unto the other said, "This huntin' doesn't pay; But we'n powler't up an' down a bit, an' had a rattlin' day." Look ye there!

SONG....

"The Better Land."

REV. F. G. HUME.

Cowen

"I HEAR thee speak of the better land,
Thou call'st its children a happy band;
Mother, where is that radiant shore?
Shall we not seek it, and weep no more?
Is it where the flower of the orange blows,
And the fire-flies dance thro' the myrtle boughs?"
"Not there, not there, my child!"

"Is it far away in some region old;

Where the rivers wander o'er sands of gold;
Where the burning rays of the ruby shine
And the diamond lights up the secret mine;
And the pearl gleams forth from the coral strand—
Is it there, sweet mother, that better land?"

"Not there, not there, my child!''

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PART SONG.." The Song of the Triton."

THE CHOIR.

(With Orchestral Accompaniment)

ONCE on a time, so I've been told,
There liv'd a fisher's daughter,
Who lov'd they said, a Triton bold,
Who came up from the water;
Oft in his hands a net he'd hold,
In rising and in sinking,

Shining with coral, pearl, and gold,
Which he kept ever clinking.
Clinkety clink.

"Come dwell with me," the Triton said,
And laugh'd a smile so sunny,
"Yes, I will come," the maid replied,
"For love and not for money;

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Then she leapt in, and of her fate,

No one amongst her kin knows,
Thus was the fish-girl married

To the Triton, 'mongst the minnows.
Clinkety clink.

...Molloy

CHORUS

“ΕΥΙΠΠΟΥ, ΞΕΝΕ, ΤΑΣΔΕ ΧΩΡΑΣ”

Mendelssohn's Oedipus Coloneus

SUNG BY FORMER MEMBERS OF THE CHOIR.

(With Orchestral Accompanient)-

STROPHE I.

THOU Comest here to the land, O friend;

Famed for fleet-footed steeds and blooming meadows;

Thou standest now in Colonos' grove

Where the voices of nightingales

Resound, floating in dulcet strains

Through their temples of verdure,

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