To Chloris (Charles Villiers Stanford)

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• (Posted 2023-09-18)  CPDL #75496:       

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-09-18).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 610 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: To Chloris
Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford
Lyricist: Edmund Waller
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong, Madrigal

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1900 E. Donajowski
Description: Composed in 1873, published by Stanley, Lucas, Weber [n.d.] and E. Donajowski (1900).

Original text and translations

English text

While I listen to thy voice,
   Chloris, I feel my life decay;
      That powerful noise
      Calls my fainting soul away.
Oh! suppress that magic sound
Which destroys without a wound.

Peace, Chloris, peace! or singing die,
   That together you and I
      To heaven may go;
      For all we know
Of what the blessed do above
Is, that they sing and that they love.