The heavy hours are almost past (Elizabeth Turner)

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• (Posted 2024-03-06)  CPDL #79402: 

Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2024-03-06).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 381 kB   Copyright: CC BY SA

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Title: The heavy hours are almost past
Composer: Elizabeth Turner
Lyricist: Anonymous
Number of voices: 1v   Voicing: solo high
Genre: Secular, Aria

Language: English
Instruments: Basso continuo,violin

First published: c.1750 (n/d)
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English text

The heavy hours are almost past,
That part my love and me;
My longing eyes may hope at last;
Their only wish, to see.
But how, my Delia, will you meet
The man you've lost so long?
Will love in all your pulses beat
And tremble on your tongue?

Will you in ev'ry look declare
Your heart is still the same,
And heal each idly anxious care
Our fears in absence frame?
Thus Delia, thus, I paint the scene,
When shortly we shall meet;
And try, what yet remains between
Of loit'ring time, to cheat.

But if the dream that sooths my mind
Shall false and groundless prove,
If I am doom'd at length to find
You have forgot to love;
All I of Venus ask is this:
No more to let us join,
But grant me here the flatt'ring bliss,
To die and think you mine.