O never say that I was false of heart - Parry, Charles Hubert Hastings

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"Words from Shakespeare's Sonnet No. 109"

⌛ Period → Late Romantic ◈ Genre → Art songs

♯ Key E- major

⁄ Time Signature 3/4

♬ Voicing → Solo Tenor

◆ Difficulty

Intermediate

↕ Range E-1 – G6

♩ Tempo moderate (92)

◷ Duration ~1 min 28 sec

¶ Language → English

Measures 45

Texture Homophonic

Parts 3

Instruments Piano

Pages 4

CPDL # 18302

Editor John Henry Fowler

Posted 2008-11-14

License CPDL License

♫Pitch Ranges

Soprano

B-3 – F-5

Piano

D3 – G6

(2)

E-1 – E-5

¶Lyrics / Text

:O never say that I was false of heart, :Though absence seem'd my flame to qualify! :As easy might I from myself depart. :As from my soul, which in thy breast doth lie: :That is my home of love: if I have rang'd, :Like him that travels, I return again; :Just to the time, not with the time exchang'd, - :So that myself bring water for my stain. :Never believe, though in my nature reign'd :All frailties that besiege all kinds of blood, :That it could so preposterously be stain'd, :To leave for nothing all thy sum of good; :For nothing this wide universe I call, :Save thou, my rose; in it thou art my all.