Cruel, let my heart be blessed (Henry Lichfield)

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• (Posted 2024-09-15)  CPDL #81979: 

Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2024-09-15).   Score information: A4, 5 pages, 85 kB   Copyright: CC BY SA

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Title: Cruel, let my heart be blessed
Composer: Henry Lichfield
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Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SSATB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1613
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English text

Cruel, let my heart be blessed;
No life is sweet with heart oppressed.
For though my greater griefs be flying,
My smile is turned to sighing.
And when I would thy praise be singing,
Alas, my heart is sore with stinging.
Yet for this woe if thou dost languish,
O then I die with anguish.