How sweet the answer (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)

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• (Posted 2017-12-22)  CPDL #48121:         

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2017-12-22).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 79 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Reformatting of #25130, with minor corrections to the underlay. A cappella version.

• CPDL #25130:        (Sibelius 6)

Editor: Ian Haslam (submitted 2011-12-09).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 59 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes:

Possible error(s) identified. See the discussion page for full description.

General Information

Title: How sweet the answer
Composer: Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
Lyricist: Thomas Moore

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella (keyboard reduction

First published: 1897

Description: No. 1 from Six Modern Lyrics (1897):

1. How sweet the answer
2. Since thou, O fondest
3. If I had but two little wings
4. There rolls the deep
5. What voice of gladness
6. Music, when soft voices die

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Original text and translations

English text

How sweet the answer Echo makes
To music at night,
When, roused by lute or horn, she wakes,
And far away, o'er lawns and lakes,
Goes answering light.

Yet Love hath echoes truer far,
And far more sweet,
Than e'er beneath the moonlight's star,
Of horn or lute, or soft guitar,
The songs repeat.

'Tis when the sigh, in youth sincere,
And only then
The sigh that's breathed for one to hear,
Is by that one, that only dear,
Breathed back again.