Dedicated to Wilfred Brown and Janet Craxton

TEN BLAKE SONGSFOR VOICE AND OBOE

WILLIAM BLAKE (1757-1827) R. VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

1 INFANT JOY(Tenor or Soprano)

VOICE

OBOE

Andante con moto

"I have no name: I am but two days

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old." What shall I call thee? "I hap-pyam, Joy is my name. "Sweet joy be-

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i>- fall thee!. Pret-ty Joy! Sweet Joy, but two days

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^^Note: The oboe parts of these songs may, in case of necessity, be played on a violin or (by transposingthe songs down a tone) on a B flat clarinet—but neither of these expedients is advisable. R. V. W.

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