To all you ladies now on land (Clara Angela Macirone)
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(Posted 2023-11-14) CPDL #77292:
- Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-11-14). Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 583 kB Copyright: Personal
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General Information
Title: To all you ladies now on land
Composer: Clara Angela Macirone
Lyricist: Charles Sackville
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1887 Novello, Ewer, and Co.
Description: Lyric: In the First Dutch War, 2 June 1665, the Night before an Engagement
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Original text and translations
English text
Song Written at Sea
To all you ladies now on land,
We men, at sea, indite;
But first would have you understand
How hard it is to write:
The Muses now, and Neptune too,
We must implore to write to you,
With a Fa, la, la, la, la.
In justice you cannot refuse
To think of our distress,
When we for hopes of honor lose
Our certain happiness:
All those designs are but to prove
Ourselves more worthy of your love,
With a Fa, la, la, la, la.
Then if we write not by each post,
Think not we are unkind;
Nor yet conclude our ships are lost,
By Dutchmen or by wind:
Our tears we’ll send a speedier way,—
The tide shall bring ’em twice a day,
With a Fa, la, la, la, la….
And now we’ve told you all our loves,
And likewise all our fears;
In hopes this declaration moves
Some pity from your tears:
Let’s hear of no inconstancy,—
We have too much of that at sea,
With a Fa, la, la, la, la.
In the First Dutch War, 2 June 1665, the Night before an Engagement