[Catherine Chandler]

Thanks, Martin. That opens it up considerably, what with Baudelaire, Verlaine, Hugo, Lamartine, Gauthier, etc. etc.

[Martin Rocek]

For your amusement, let me point out that not all "original" settings have particularly fortuitous phrasing--in Handel's Messiah, it sounds very much as if we sheep-lovers have gone astray: https://youtu.be/LmeyG5LlFWU or https://youtu.be/ixmNZQH0NjU for a slightly faster version with nice pictures