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Come to me grief for ever (William Byrd)
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- Edition notes: Revised March 2008.
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- Editor: Laura Conrad (submitted 2001-05-08). Score information: Letter, 5 pages, 76 kbytes Copyright: GnuGPL
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General Information
Title: Come to me grief for ever
Composer: William Byrd
Number of voices: 5vv Voicing: SSATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published: Psalmes, sonets, & songs (1588), no.34
Description: Elegy for Sir Philip Sydney, d. 1586.
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Original text and translations
Original text:
English text
Come to me grief for ever,
Come to me tears day and night,
Come to me plaint, ah helpless,
Just grief, heart tears, plaint worthy,
Go from me dread to die now
Go from me care to live more,
Go from me joys all on earth,
Sidney, O Sidney is dead.
He whom the Court adorned,
He whom the country courtesied,
He who made happy his friends,
He that did good to all men.
Sidney, the hope of lands strange,
Sidney, the flower of England,
Sidney, the spirit heroic,
Sidney id dead, O dead.
Dead? no, no, but renowed
With the anointed one,
Honour on earth at his feet,
Bliss everlasting his seat.
Come to grief for ever
Come to me tears day and night,
Come to me plaint, ah helpless,
Just grief, heart tears, plaint worthy.
