SWIFTLY FROM THE MOUNTAIN'S BROW. English, Air (2/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. "Swiftly from the mountain's brow" was composed by Samuel Webbe in 1788, with words by John Cunningham.
Swiftly from the mountain’s brow, Shadows nurs’d by night retire; And the peeping sunbeams now Paint with gold the village spire.
Sweet, oh sweet the warbling throng, On the white emblossom’d spray; Nature’s universal song Echoes to the rising day.
Additional notes
Printed sources : - Edward Riley (Riley’s Flute Melodies vol. 3), New York, 1820; No. 5, p. 1.
