Tell me, O love - Parry, Charles Hubert Hastings

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⌛ Period → Late Romantic

◈ Genre / Form Partsongs

♬ Voicing → SATB

◆ Difficulty

Intermediate (Grade 4-5)

¶ Language → English

Parts 4

Instruments A cappella

Pages 12

CPDL # 78430

Editor David Anderson

Posted 2023-12-20

License Personal

¶Lyrics / Text

A DIALOGUE BETWEEN A SHEPHERD AND A NYMPH Tell me, O Love, when shall it be That thy fair eyes shall shine on me, Whom nothing else reviveth? I pray thee, shepherd, leave thy fears, Drown not thy heart and eyes with tears; Such sighs my sense depriveth. Alas, sweet nymph! I cannot chuse, Since thou estranged lives from me. O do not me for that accuse; My love, my life, doth live in thee. Alas what joy is in such love That ever lives apart, And never other comforts prove But cares that kill the heart! O let me die! And so will I. Yet stay, sweet Love, and sing this song with me: ‘Time brings to pass what love thinks could not be.’

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