Fain would I change that note (Ralph Vaughan Williams)

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• (Posted 2023-12-05)  CPDL #77859:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-12-05).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 303 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: Fain would I change that note
Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams
Lyricist: Tobias Hume
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1907 Novello and Co.
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English text

Fain would I change that note
To which fond Love hath charmed me
Long, long to sing by rote,
Fancying that that harmed me:
Yet when this thought doth come
‘Love is the perfect sum
Of all delight!’
I have no other choice
Either for pen or voice
To sing or write.

O Love! they wrong thee much
That say thy sweet is bitter,
When thy rich fruit is such
As nothing can be sweeter.
Fair house of joy and bliss,
Where truest pleasure is,
I do adore thee:
I know thee what thou art,
I serve thee with my heart,
And fall before thee.