Two lovers (Eduard Hecht)
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- (Posted 2023-10-26) CPDL #76715:
- Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-26). Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 804 kB Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes:
- (Posted 2020-06-07) CPDL #59115:
- Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2020-06-07). Score information: A4, 10 pages, 150 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score.
General Information
Title: Two Lovers
Composer: Eduard Hecht
Lyricist: George Eliot
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1884 in Novello's Part-Song Book (2nd series), Vol. 17, no. 474
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Original text and translations
English text
Two lovers by a moss-grown spring:
They leaned soft cheeks together there,
Mingled the dark and sunny hair,
And heard the wooing thrushes sing.
O budding time!
O love's blest prime!
Two wedded from the portal stept:
The bells made happy carollings,
The air was soft as fanning wings,
White petals on the pathway slept.
O pure-eyed bride!
O tender pride!
Two faces o'er a cradle bent:
Two hands above the head were locked:
These pressed each other while they rocked,
Those watched a life that love had sent.
O solemn hour!
O hidden power!
Two parents by the evening fire:
The red light fell about their knees
On heads that rose by slow degrees
Like buds upon the lily spire.
O patient life!
O tender strife!
The two still sat together there,
The red light shone about their knees;
But all the heads by slow degrees
Had gone and left that lonely pair.
O voyage fast!
O vanished past!
The red light shone upon the floor
And made the space between them wide;
They drew their chairs up side by side,
Their pale cheeks joined, and said, "Once more!"
O memories!
O past that is!
Mary Ann Evans, under her pen name George Eliot