The dying boy (Edward Roberts)

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• (Posted 2024-06-24)  CPDL #81021:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2024-06-24).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 306 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: The dying boy
Composers: Edward Roberts and John Paul Morgan
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1868 F. J. Huntington & Co.
Description: This piece appears in “The Tonart” (1868), written by Edward Roberts and John Paul Morgan. The publication did not specify an individual composer.
Exercise for the key of A-flat.

Original text and translations

English text

Take me in your arms, my mother,
Lean my head upon your breast,
In this world there is no other
I can fly unto for rest.

Sing some soothing song, dear mother,
Lay your hand upon my brow;
Soon we’ll part from one another—
Hark! I hear the angels now.

They are drawing nearer, mother,
Singing their sweet heavenly song,
Cease your weeping—you’ll soon join me;
Only wait—it won’t be long.

See them beckoning, yonder, mother,
Clad in robes of spotless white,
They are calling to your darling:
Kiss, me, mother—now good-night.