Forget me not! (Thomas Ryan)

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• (Posted 2023-12-05)  CPDL #77867:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-12-05).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 364 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: Forget me not!
Composer: Thomas Ryan
Lyricist: Amelia Opie
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1850 Mason & Law
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Original text and translations

English text

Go, you beloved, in distant glades,
New friends, new hopes, new joys to find!
Yet sometimes deign, ’midst fairer maids,
To think on her thou leav’st behind.
Thy love, thy fate, dear youth to share,
Must never be my happy lot;
But thou may’st grant this humble prayer,
Forget me not! Forget me not!

Yet, should the thought of my distress
Too painful to thy feelings be,
Heed not the wish I now express,
Nor ever deign to think on me:
But, Oh! If grief thy steps attend,
If want, if sickness be thy lot,
And though require a soothing friend,
Forget me not! Forget me not!