Alas! (Barbara Rosen)
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- Editor: John Hetland (submitted 2021-02-14). Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 357 kB Copyright: CPDL
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General Information
Title: Alas!
Composer: Barbara Rosen
Lyricist: George MacDonald
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Art song
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
Composed: 2007
Description: Text from George MacDonald's Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women.
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Original text and translations
English text
Alas, how easily things go wrong!
A sigh too much, a kiss too long,
And there follows a mist and weeping rain,
And life is never the same again.