Peace; come away (Charles Villiers Stanford)

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• (Posted 2017-12-27)  CPDL #48208:         

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2017-12-27).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 66 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Reformatting of #3023, with minor corrections to the underlay, and to slurring.

• (Posted 2001-09-30)  CPDL #03023:       

Editor: Stuart McIntosh (submitted 2001-09-30).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 60 kB   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes:

Possible error(s) identified. See the discussion page for full description.

General Information

Title: Peace; come away
Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford
Lyricist: Alfred Tennyson

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

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Original text and translations

English text

Peace; come away: the song of woe
Is after all an earthly song:
Peace; come away: we do him wrong
To sing so wildly: let us go.

Come; let us go: your cheeks are pale;
But half my life I leave behind:
Methinks my friend is richly shrined;
But I shall pass; my work will fail.

Yet in these ears, till hearing dies,
One set slow bell will seem to toll
The passing of the sweetest soul
That ever look’d with human eyes.

I hear it now, and o’er and o’er,
Eternal greetings to the dead;
And "Ave, Ave, Ave," said,
"Adieu, adieu" for evermore.