A love symphony (Percy Pitt)

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• (Posted 2023-11-28)  CPDL #77685:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-11-28).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 363 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: A love symphony
Composer: Percy Pitt
Lyricist: Arthur William Edgar O’Shaughnessy
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1900 Novello and Co.
Description: 

Original text and translations

English text

Along the garden ways just now
I heard the flowers speak;
The white-rose told me of your brow,
The red-rose of your cheek;
The lily of your bended head;
The bindweed of your hair;
Each looked its loveliest and said
You were more fair.

I went into the wood anon,
And heard the wild birds sing,
How sweet you were; they warbled on,
Piped, trilled, the selfsame thing.
Thrush, blackbird, linnet, without pause,
The burden did repeat,
And still began again because
You were more sweet.

And then I went down to the sea,
And heard its murmuring too,
Part of an ancient mystery,
All made of me and you;
How many a thousand years ago
I loved, and you were sweet—
Longer I could not stay, and so
I fled back to your feet.