Follow thy fair sun (Ty Kroll)

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Editor: Ty Kroll (submitted 2004-07-14).   Score information: Letter, 6 pages, 160 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL

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Title: Follow Thy Fair Sun
Composer: Ty Kroll
Lyricist: Thomas Campion

Number of voices: 7vv   Voicing: SSAATBB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
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Original text and translations

English text

Follow thy fair sun, unhappy shadow,

  Though thou be black as night, 

  And she made all of light; 

Yet follow thy fair sun, unhappy shadow!

Follow her, whose light thy light depriveth!

  Though here thou livest disgraced, 

  And she in heaven is placed; 

Yet follow her whose light the world reviveth!

Follow those pure beams, whose beauty burneth!

  That so have scorchèd thee; 

  As thou still black must be, 

Till her kind beams thy black to brightness turneth!

Follow her, while yet her glory shineth!

  There comes a luckless night 

  That will dim all her light; 

And this the black unhappy shade divineth.

Follow still, since so thy Fates ordained!

  The sun must have his shade, 

  Till both at once do fade; 

The sun still proved, the shadow still disdained!