If thou wouldst ease thine heart (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)

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CPDL #17068:       Sibelius 4

Editor: John Henry Fowler (added 2008-06-04).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 61 kbytes       Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: File Sizes: PDF: 61 KB, MIDI: 9 KB, Sibelius 4: 42 KB.

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Title: If thou wouldst ease thine heart
Composer: Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
Lyricist: Thomas Lovell Beddoes

Number of voices: 1v  Voicing: Solo Tenor
Genre: Secular, Art song

Language: English
Instruments: Piano
Published: 1995

Description: Number 2 of Charles Hubert Hastings Parry's "English Lyrics" - Set 3

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Original text and translations

English text

If thou wouldst east thine heart

Of love and all its smart,

Then sleep, dear! Sleep !

And not a sorrow hang

any tear on thine eyelashes;

Lie still and deep sad soul!

Until the seawave washes

the rim of the sun to morrow

In Eastern sky.

But wouldst thou cure thine heart

Of love and all its smart

Then die, dear, die.

'Tis deeper sweeter

Than on a rose bank to lie dreaming

With tranced eye

And then alone

Amid the beaming of Love's stars

thou'lt greet her in Eastern sky.

Lyrics: Thomas Lovell Beddoes - (1803-1849)