Love—the Minstrel - Challinor, Frederick A.

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◈ Genre → Partsongs ♬ Voicing → SATB ¶ Language → English

Parts 4

Instruments A cappella

Pages 8

CPDL # 75968

Editor David Anderson

Posted 2023-10-02

License Personal

¶Lyrics / Text

O sweet-voiced Love, that in my heart Thy dulcet strains art ever singing, How dost thou ply thy wondrous art, To give my wishes swifter winging. As Morn aside Night’s curtain throws, Thy song I hear within me welling, My waking thoughts to thee compelling, Ere yet my eyes unclose. All through the day’s succeeding hours Thou singest many a winsome measure, Of hearts aglow ’mid rosy bowers, Of whispered vows and fondest pleasure. A tireless Minstrel, Love, art thou, And I, to hear thee, tireless ever; Yea, will I say thy song was never So sweet to me as now. Yet have I heard reproach of thee, For waywardness and wanton wiling, Of frailty, and inconstancy, When thou hast done with thy beguiling. And though thy music haply prove A syren-song for my undoing, I’ll take the joy and risk the rueing, For oh, I love thee, Love.