Love me little, love me long (Geoffrey Shaw)
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- (Posted 2023-12-07) CPDL #77911:
- Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-12-07). Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 303 kB Copyright: Personal
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General Information
Title: Love me little, love me long
Composer: Geoffrey Shaw
Lyricist: Anonymous
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong, Folksong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1916 J. Curwen & Sons
Description: Six Traditional Melodies, No. 3
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Original text and translations
English text
Love me little, love me long!
Is the burden of my song:
Love that is too hot and strong
Burneth soon to waste.
Still I would not have thee cold,—
Not too backward, nor too bold;
Love that lasteth till ’tis old
Fadeth not in haste.
Winter’s cold and Summer’s heat,
Autumn’s tempest on it beat;
It can never know defeat,
Never can rebel.
Such the love that I would gain,
Such love I tell thee plain
You must give or woo in vain,
So to thee farewell.
16th Century