Fain would I change that note (Healey Willan)
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- Editor: Douglas Walczak (submitted 2022-12-30). Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 72 kB Copyright: Personal
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Title: Fain would I change that note
Composer: Healey Willan
Lyricist: Tobias Hume
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1911
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Original text and translations
English text
Fain would I change that note
To which fond Love hath charm'd me
Long, long to sing by rote,
Fancying that that harm'd me:
Yet when this thought doth come
'Love is the perfect sum
Of all delight!'
I have no other choice
Either for pen or voice
To sing or write.
O Love! they wrong thee much
That say thy fruit is bitter,
When thy rich fruit is such
As nothing can be sweeter.
Fair house of joy and bliss,
Where truest pleasure is,
I do adore thee:
I know thee what thou art,
I serve thee with my heart,
And fall before thee.