Turn all thy thoughts to eyes (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)
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- (Posted 2023-12-20) CPDL #78428:
- Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-12-20). Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 364 kB Copyright: Personal
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General Information
Title: Turn all thy thoughts to eyes
Composer: Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
Lyricist: Thomas Campion
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1897 in Six Lyrics from an Elizabethan Song Book, no. 3
Description: Novello, Ewer, and Co.
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Original text and translations
English text
Turn all thy thoughts to eyes,
Turn all thy hairs to ears,
Change all thy friends to spies
And all thy joys to fears;
True love will yet be free
In spite of jealousy.
Turn darkness into day,
Conjectures into truth,
Believe what th’ envious say,
Let age interpret youth:
True love will yet be free
In spite of jealousy.
Wrest every word and look,
Rack every hidden thought,
Or fish with golden hook;
True love cannot be caught:
For that will still be free
In spite of jealousy.