No jewelled Beauty is my Love (Thomas Crampton)

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• (Posted 2023-12-21)  CPDL #78438:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-12-21).   Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 539 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: No jewelled Beauty is my Love
Composer: Thomas Crampton
Lyricist: Gerald Massey
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: Piano

First published: ca. 1865 F. Pitman
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English text

No jewell’d Beauty is my Love,
Yet in her earnest face
There’s such a world of tenderness,
She needs no other grace.
Her smiles, and voice, around my life
In light and music twine,
And dear, O very dear to me,
Is this sweet Love of mine.

O joy! to know there’s one fond heart
Beats ever true to me:
It sets mine leaping like a lyre,
In sweetest melody:
My soul up-springs, a Deity!
To hear her voice divine;
And dear, O very dear to me,
Is this sweet Love of mine.

If ever I have sigh’d for wealth,
’Twas all for her, I trow;
And if I win Fame’s victor-wreath,
I’ll twine it on her brow.
There may be forms more beautiful,
And souls of sunnier shine,
But none, O none, so dear to me,
As this sweet Love of mine.