The Indian serenade (David Christmas Williams)

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• (Posted 2023-12-18)  CPDL #78328:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-12-18).   Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 614 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: The Indian serenade
Composer: David Christmas Williams
Lyricist: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1913 J. Fischer & Bro.
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Original text and translations

English text

I arise from dreams of thee
In the first sweet sleep of night,
When the winds are breathing low,
And the stars are shining bright.
I arise from dreams of thee,
And a spirit in my feet
Hath led me—who knows how?
To thy chamber window, Sweet!

The wandering airs they faint
On the dark, the silent stream—
And the Champak odours fail
Like sweet thoughts in a dream;
The nightingale’s complaint,
It dies upon her heart,
As I must on thine,
Belovèd as thou art!

Oh lift me from the grass!
I die! I faint! I fail!
Let thy love in kisses rain
On my lips and eyelids pale.
My cheek is cold and white, alas!
My heart beats loud and fast;—
Oh! press it close to thine again,
Where it will break at last.