Tell me, thou soul of her I love (Edwin Augustus Sydenham)

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• (Posted 2023-12-13)  CPDL #78156:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-12-13).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 456 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: Tell me, thou soul of her I love
Composer: Edwin Augustus Sydenham
Lyricist: James Thomson
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1883 Novello, Ewer, and Co.
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English text

Tell me, thou soul of her I love,
Ah, tell me, tell me, whither art thou fled;
To what delightful world above
Appointed for the happy dead?

Or dost thou free, at pleasure, roam,
And sometimes share thy lover’s woe;
Where, void of thee, his cheerless home
Can now, alas! alas! no comfort know?

Oh! if thou hoverest round my walk,
While under every well-known tree,
I to thy fancied shadow talk,
And every tear is full of thee.

Should then the weary eye of grief
Beside some sympathetic stream,
In slumber find a short relief,
O visit thou my soothing dream.