Although soft sleep (Richard John Samuel Stevens)

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• CPDL #15305:

Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2008-01-08).   Score information: A4, 3 pages   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score. Please click on the link for preview/playback and PDF download.

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Title: Although soft sleep
Composer: Richard John Samuel Stevens
Lyricist: Thomas Warton (original Latin epigram, translator unknown)

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SSATB

Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published: 1789

Description: Submitted by Stevens as candidate for the Catch Club's gold medal in 1789.

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English text

Although soft sleep death's near resemblance wears,
still do I wish, him on my couch to lie:
Come balmy rest, for sweetly it appears
thus without life to live,
thus without death to die.