Awake, my love, awake (John Hare Walker)

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  • (Posted 2023-12-14)  CPDL #78232:     
Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-12-14).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 483 kB   Copyright: Personal
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General Information

Title: Awake, my love, awake
Composer: John Hare Walker
Lyricist: Alexander Pope
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: SecularPartsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1866 Novello and Co.
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Original text and translations

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Awake, my love, disclose thy radiant eyes;
Arise, my love, my beauteous lady, rise!
Hear how the doves with pensive notes complain,
And in soft murmurs tell the trees their pain:
The winter’s past; the clouds and tempests fly;
The sun adorns the fields, and brightens all the sky.