O never say that I was false of heart (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)
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- Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2008-11-14). Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 62 kB Copyright: CPDL
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Title: O never say that I was false of heart
Composer: Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
Lyricist: William Shakespeare
Number of voices: 1v Voicing: Tenor solo
Genre: Secular, Art song
Language: English
Instruments: Piano
First published: 1907 in English Lyrics, Set 7, no. 4
Description: Words from Shakespeare's Sonnet No. 109
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Original text and translations
English text
O never say that I was false of heart,
Though absence seem'd my flame to qualify!
As easy might I from myself depart.
As from my soul, which in thy breast doth lie:
That is my home of love: if I have rang'd,
Like him that travels, I return again;
Just to the time, not with the time exchang'd, -
So that myself bring water for my stain.
Never believe, though in my nature reign'd
All frailties that besiege all kinds of blood,
That it could so preposterously be stain'd,
To leave for nothing all thy sum of good;
For nothing this wide universe I call,
Save thou, my rose; in it thou art my all.